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Show "The thing we have learned nm, and should never forget is this; That a society of self-governin men is more powerful, more enduring, en-during, more creative than anv other kind of society, however disciplined, however centralized. "The basic proposition of the worth and dignity of man is not a sentimental aspiration or a vain hops or a piece of rhetoric," he went on. "It is the strongest, the most creative force now present in this world." "Now," the president pleaeei, "let usoise the force and all om resources and all our skills in the great cause of a just and lasting peace." He told of the devastation it Europe, and described Berlin is "a ghost city." "War has indeed come home to Germany and to the German pea-pie," pea-pie," he said. "It has come in a! the frightfulness with which the German leaders started ul waged it. "The German people are begin ning to atone for the crimes i the gangsters whom they placed in power and whom they wholeheartedly whole-heartedly approved and obedient ly followed. "How glad I am to be home again And how grateful to Almighty Al-mighty God that this land of oc has been spared!" He assured his listeners ths the United States will acquire the bases which American m: tary experts "deem to be essentia: for our protection" includin; those not now in American pff session. |