DARKENING SHADOW

Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 146, 21 June 1940, Page 8

DARKENING SHADOW

SPREAD TO AMERICA

MR. HULL SPEAKS OUT

NO SAFETY IN ISOLATION

(Received June 21, 10 'a.m.) NEW YORK, June 20. 4 The Secretary of State,, Mr. Cordell Hull, speaking at tfl *c degreegiving ceremony at Harvipfrd University, said that the masse/1 forces of lust for- tyrannical powjjr were a menace to modern civili cation but, whatever the hardships ai td trials, the cause of human free dom would triumph. There had never been # a more de«- ---' perate need for men oft the nations which loved freedom *nd cherished ithe tenets of modern (civilisation to

gather into an unconquerable (defensive force,, with every elemesit of their spiritual and material rc»ources and their moral and physical strength. There' was no more dangero-fis folly, said Mr. Hull, than to thinik. that America's achievements could be preserved by isolation. Nation .-after nation had been crushed, overrun, and enslaved by brute force, comb ined with fraud and guile.

"As dismal darkness descends on more of the earth's surface,"; said Mr. Hull, "and as the menacing shadow becomes blacker and blackcsr athwart our continent, the instinct of selfpreservation bids us bewaije."