Mr. Hull recalled his statement of the principles of American policy on July 16, 1937, in which an overwhelming majority of the governments of the world had joined in affirming their faith.
The crucial universal issue to-day, he said, was whether these principles would be vitalized and firmly established as a foundation for international order, or whether international anarchy, based on brute fore would inundate the world and ultimately sweep away the very bases of civiliza ation and progress.
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