"We reassert our abiding faith in the vitality of our Constitutional Republic as the perpetual home of freedom, tolerance and devotion to the word of God, "Therefore, I tonight issued a pro clamation that an unlimited national emergency exists which requires strengthening of our defence to the extreme limit of our national power and authority, "The nation' will expect all indivi duals and all groups to play their full parts without stint, without selfishness, and without doubt that our democracy triumphantly will The President closed with a repetltion of the Declaration of Independence, to which "with firm reliance on the protection of Divine Province we mutually" pledge our lives, fortunes and sacred honour."—United Press.
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