Washington, Jan. 23.
"It is only when they despair that men yield their liberty to dictatorship of right or left in exchange for the illusion of living," declared Mr. Harold Ickes, Secretary of the In terior, in an address to-day before the national conference for a united Palestine.
"Nations which have denied freedom of thought and speech at home, and cruelly discriminated against their own citizens because of race, religion and political faith," Mr. lekes said, "have not been good neighbours abroad."
"It is not altogether an accident," he asserted, "that Fascist leaders who are unaccustomed to defend their own actions at home should be heedless of world opinion."
The speaker contended that the danger to democracy lay in the growing concentration, in the hands of a small autocratic class, of economic power over other people's labour, lives and wealth.—Reuter.
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