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THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 21, 1941 -

Address:

Pres. Roosevelt's Inaugural Peril OF Inaction

"TO US THERE HAS COME THE TIME, IN THE MIDST OF SWIFT HAPPENINGS TO PAUSE FOR A MOMENT TO TAKE STOCK TO RECALL WHAT OUR PLACE IN HISTORY HAS BEEN AND TO RE-DISCOVER WHAT WE ARE AND WHAT WE MAY BE, SAID PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT IN HIS INAUGURAL SPEECH IN WASHINGTON YESTERDAY,

"On each inaugural day,” he said, "the U.S. NAVAL

American people have renewed their sense of dedication to the United States.

"In this day, the task of the people is to save the nation and its institutions from dis- ruption from without.. We must assess our- selves in history.. If we do not, we risk the real peril of inaction.

de-

"The es of rations are

count termined not by the years but by the hetime of the

human prut. The life of man is three

years and ten, a

-

little more, a hite jess. The life of a nation is the fullness of the measure 's will to live

believer

"There are men who doubt this. "There are

men who that Demi »cracy is a form of Gov- frame of life is ernment and a limited or measured by a kind of

that mystical artificial tate

for some unexpilammed reason, tyranny and slavery. have surgingave of the future that freedom is an ebbing tide.

I

MEN

assess CONVICTED

from other nations

this of hemisphere

from and

enslaved across the sea well as free. "Sometimes we fail to hear

Two United States Navy those seamen were convicted in a San Francisco yesterday of "malicious mischief” us by cutting down the Nazi |

flag from the German Consulate-General.

heed these voices because to the privilege of fredom is an old, old story."

ог

such

Washington Address

of

the

Recalling President Washing- ton's first inaugural address in 1789 when he spoke of "the pre-

fire servation of the sacred

of liberty and the destiny become

Republican model of government, President Roosevelt declared: "If we lose that sacred freedom, ir we let it be smothered with doubt

Free Expression Of Thought

the

"But ve Amerwan; know that that is not true Democracy is not dying.

We know it becauISO

we have eemal arxAP

anal grow We know it camed die because it i but al tr unhampered initiative of individual men and women juinad together in a com- mon enterprise efterprise Un- der aken, nd carried through by the free expression of thought.

"This is an offence against another nation," said the Muni- cipal Judge, after remanding them in the custody of the naval authorities.

He is to pronounce sentence on Thursday.

The Germa Radic yesterday

or fear, then we shall reject the referred to "impudent and pro- destiny which President Washing-vocative insults to the Gerinan ton strove so valiantly, so trumm-flag" phantly to establish.

"The preservation of the spirit and faith of a nation does and will furnish the highest justi. fication for every sacrifice We may make in the cause of na. tional defence.

In the face of perils never be- fore encountered, our strong pur- pose is to project and perpetuate the integrity of democracy.

We Go Forward

"For this We muster

"We sense that It is still Spreading on every Continent-- for it is the most humane, the most advanced and the mast unconquerable of all forms of spirit of America, the faith human society.

the

America. We do not retreat; we

has are not content to stand. As Americans, we go forward in the service of our country, by the will of God to the end."

"A nation, like a person, a mind a mind that must be kept Informed and alert, that must know itself that understands the hopes and need of its neighbours -all other nations that live with- in the narrowing circle of the world. And a nation like a per- son hus sinething deeper, some- thing more permanent, some thing larger than the sum of all something its parts. It is that which matters must to its future, which calls forth the most sacred guarding of its present.

"It is the thing for which we And it dificult, even impossible, to hit upon in a single, simple word, and yet we all understand wht it is the spirit and the

faith of America.

is not a ing

German

that in announcing

the Charge d'Affaires in Washington had lodged a strong the United States protest with State Department about the inci- dent. Reuter.

ADVANCE INTO ETRITREA

of In addition to the suc- cessful Western Desert campaign, the British troops in Africa are also Mighty cheers swelled up from attacking the Italians at the multitude in the Plaza beneath the Capitol's sunflecked dome as several other points. the President reached the con- The most important of these at cluding passage of his inaugural the moment is the Kassala sector, speech: "We do not retreat. we and British troops are already 20 are not content to stand still." miles east and south-west of that

After the speech, the President, | eity,

Eritrea. The well inside before re-entering the car to re-enemy withdrawal continues. turn to the White House, waited On the Sudan/Abyssinian bor- in a white pillared pavilion which der our patrols are very active, had been specially constructed in while in the Kenya sector con-

offensive action by front of the Capitol for the cere-tinued monies and stood with the multi-mobile detachments has resulted tude as the band played the na-

in a number of gains and the in- tional anthem.

flicting of casualties on the enemy.

Strong In Emphasis

our

A further 4,000 Italians taken prisoner in the initial thrust in- to the Western Desert arrived at Bombay yesterday for intern-

ment.

ALBANIA

"It is the product of centuries. "The democratic aspiration

Observers noted that President mere recent happen- |

history. It is Roosevelt looked more than us- in human human history. It permeated ually serious before he took the

also He was

unusually the ancient life of the early oath, peoples. It blazed anew in the strong in emphasis throughout Middle Ages, it was written in his address but afterwards he greeted friends gally and appear- Magna Carta: In the Americas, ils impact based in the best of spirits. been irresistible.

Several members of President Roosevelt's family, including his witnessed the historic mother,

THE IMPORTANT TOWN OF inauguration from the pavilion BERAT, BEHIND THE ITALIAN

the President's own LINES over which

IN THE SECTOR IN

THE flag waved with WHICH blue and gold

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BEEN HEAVILY BOMBED BY CAIRO THE RA.F., SAYS A COMMUNIQUE.

Our planes dropped high ex- plosive and incendiary bombs on military concentrations and motor transport and on buildings east

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The State War Council of Unite .: "If the spirit, of Ameriça : were During the interval since Its ed Provinces, India, has resolved: killed, even though the nation's first appearance rehearsals have to send six lokha-about £45,000 body and mind, opnatrioted in un continued and an entertainment for the purchase of aircraft. alien world, lived on, the America of even higher standard than the The Times of Ceylon" has sent we know would have perished. first is promised. Seats at popu- £8,000 to the Lord Mayor's. air- That spirit, that faith, speaks 'lar prices are booknble at * An- | røld distress relief fund and sent to us in our dally diven in ways derson's Music Store, lee Hopay £120,000 for various war charl- 'unnoticed.', speaka" to "us Street,

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