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Show Matlsi Pledges Allegiance As President clivers Flag Hay Address on this day; "God of the free, we pledge our hearts and lives today to the cause of all free mankind. "Grant us victory over the tyrants who would enslave all free men and nations. Grant us faith and understanding to cherish all those who fight for freedom as if they were our brothers Grant us brotherhood in hope and union, not only for the space of this bitter war, but for the days to come which shall and must unite all the children of earth. "The spirit of man has awakened awak-ened and the soul or man has gone forth. Grant us the wisdom wis-dom and the vision to comprehend compre-hend the greatness of man's spirit, that suffers and endures so lit gel y for a coal beyond h(is own brief span. Grant us honor hon-or for our dead who died in the faith, honor for our living who work and strive for the faith, redemption and security for all captive lands and peoples. Grant us patience with the deluded de-luded and pity for the betray- The text of President Roosevelt's Roose-velt's United Flag day address Sunday follows; Today on Flag day we celebrate cele-brate the declaration of the united nations that great alliance alli-ance dedicated to the defeat of our foes and to the establishment establish-ment of a true peace based on the freedom of man'. Today the Republic of Mexico and the commonwealth of the Philippine Philip-pine islands join us. We welcome wel-come these valliant peoples to the company of those who fight for freedom. The four freedoms of common com-mon humanity are as much elements ele-ments of man's needs as air and sunlight, bread and salt. Deprive him of all these freedoms free-doms and he dies deprive him of a part of tliejn and a part of .him withers. u;n'e -them 'to him in full and abundant measure meas-ure and he will cross the threshold of a new age, the greatest age of man. These freedoms are the rights of men of every creed and every race, wherever they live. This is their heritage, ed. And grant us the skill and the valor that shall cleanse the world of oppression and the old doctrine that the strong must eat the weak because they are strong. "Yet most of all grant us brotherhood, not only for this day but for all our years a brotherhood not of words but of acts and deeds We are all of us children of earth grant us that simple knowledge. If our brothers are oppressed, then we are oppressed. If they hunger, we hunger. Grant us a common faith that; man shall know bread and peace that he shall know Justice and righteousness, right-eousness, freedom and security, securi-ty, an equal opportunity and an equal chance to do his best, not only in our own lands, but throughout the world. And In that faith let us march, toward the clean world our hands can make. Amen." long withheld. We of the united uni-ted nations have the power and the men and the will at last to assure man's heritage. We ask the brave, unconquered uncon-quered people of the nations the axis invaders have dishonored dishon-ored and despoiled whether they would rather yield to conquerors con-querors or have freedom of speech and religion, freedom from want and from fear. We know the answer. They know the answer. We know that man, born to freedom in the image of God, will not forever suffer the oppressor's swod. The peoples of the united nations are taking that sword from the oppressors' hands. With it they will destroy des-troy those tyrants. The brazen tyrannies pass. Man marches forward toward the light. I am. going to close by read- -ing you a prayer that has been written for the united nations |