It declared that the programme was not beginning any ill-considered trust-busting activity, but it was a programme ^to preserve private enterprise for profit by keeping it free to utilize all our resources of capital and labour at a profit."
Mr. Roosevelt declared that the concentration of private power today was unequalled in history. He said that one lesson in events abroad which, "hit home" was that the liberty of democracy was not safe if people would tolerate the growth of "private power to a point where it became stronger than their democratic state itself.
That, in essence, the President pointed out, was Fascism.
The tenor of Mr. Roosevelt's long-
From the end of the eighteenth century for 125 year Roland was wiped from the map of Europe, after centuries of glorious history as the defender of Western civilization and of Christianity. Said Victor Hugo, "While my own France was the missionary of civilization. Poland was its knight" Talleyrand said that ihe partition of Poland was worse than a crime—it was folly. While Lord Eversley pronounced that the partition of Poland was the remote, indirect, but nevertheless essential cause of the Great War.
Yet Poland, though dismembered, was not dead. The life of the Polish nation during her 125 years of enslavement proves that she was not dead but had followed the advice given by Jean Jacques Rousseau before her partition: "Poles! If you cannot prevent your neighbours from swallowing you, you can at least secure that they will not succeeded in digesting you.
The dream of many generations came true, under the first chief of the independent Poland, Marshal Joseph Pilsudski. How does the new Poland, now reaching the twentieth year of her age, compare with her mature sisters—the other countries of the world
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