Speaking before a large audience of university students and citizens of-the surrounding towns, President Franklin D. Roosevelt to&ay "called upon the nation to re-endorse the liberal principles of the New Deal, and to provide a leadership so that the democratic systems of the modern world might survive.
The occasion of President Roosevelt's speech was the acceptance of an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from the University of North Carolina.
The President rejected the interpretation of the November elections as a body-blow to liberal action. He said that the liberal forces of, the world had often been claimed as killed and buried but inevitably they had "come to life with more strength than before."
The President said that the future of America rests upon "cffrmative "What America does or fails to do in the next few years will be of far greater bearing and influence on the human race for centuries to come than most of us conceive.
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