President Roosevelt yesterday declared that -American confidence in the future of democracy had not been diminished and will not be diminished despite the fac* that self-Government was everywhere under attack, The President spoke at a ceremony dedicating the U.S. $350,000 Franklin D. Roosevelt library which will house more than 6,000,000 documents constituting a record of his political career.—United Press.
The latest news from the front is an unconfirmed German report that Nazi tank columns are driving at high speed along the road from Minsk to Moscow. It is in this sector, north of the Pinsk marshes, that the heaviest clash between Russian and German forces has occurred, The Germans hurled overwhelming masses of tanks and men into their main pincer drive towards Moscow, and the Russians, as their communique has reported, are offering stubborn resistance, This morning's Russian communique does not confirm the German claim io have captured Minsk, the capital of White Russia, Round Minsk, it is said, Russian troops are engaged in heavy fighting with numerically superior German mobile units and are holdingjtheir advance,
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