Berlin, Jan. 3.
President Roosevelt's speech to Congress is most unfavourably viewed here, especially the passage declaring that "democracy will be restored in countries which at present ignore it."
Political circles here said that the President's Lyrics on democracy are natural since the United States are a democracy, but stated that the terms he used in describing other political regimes merely denote presumption, Semi-official circles here stated that the so-called dictatorships sincerely wish peace while democracies utterly failed in their pacific mission, In any case, they concluded, German opinion deems President Roosevelt's criticism: inadmissible when directed against the political regime freely chosen by the German people—Havas "Ridiculous Treaties"
Italy is actually far more demo than the "great democracies" and her regime is nearer the people ti n the plutocracies,"
More than 600 popular meeting: will be held to throughout Italy to celebrate Il Duce's speech made on January 3, 1925, which marked the beginning of totalitarian Fascism through suppression of the rema opposition.
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