"The evil which we strove unceas ingly and with all honesty of purpose to avert fell upon us, in this hour our conscience is clear, for there is now revealed, without' the possibil-mistake, the long-planned scheme to subjugate by force the ions of the world, against which all our efforts for peace were doomed to break.
"the decisive struggle is now upon us. Tam. speaking plainly to you, for in this hour of trial 1 know you would not have me do otherwise.
"it fy an issue of life or death for us, Defeat will not mean some brief eclipse from which we shall emerge with strength renewed-it will mean the destruction of our world a we Know it and the descent of darkness upon its ruin
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