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...Committee further bases its demands for labor on the belief that organized labor has been the "strongest bulwark against fascist barbarism and has never wavered in its principles of democracy and freedom...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ANTI-LABOR MOVE OF CAPITAL LASHED | 4/21/1941 | See Source »

...Hawaiian incident. Two summers ago members of the sect on the islands became convinced that Hawaii was soon to sink into the sea. But I Am, by a magnificent exertion of will, resolved that Hawaii should not disappear under the waves. And today Hawaii stands strong and unsubmerged, a bulwark of national defense and a heroic monument to the Great...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CIRCLING THE SQUARE | 4/17/1941 | See Source »

...thought. His chief problem: the spiritual and material welfare of the great mass of poverty-stricken Mexicans-100,000 of them-in his city's slummy West Side. To them, as to all the 653,000 Catholics in his province, he will present the Church as "the great bulwark of democracy" because it teaches tolerance, charity, the dignity of man and the supreme worth of the individual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: New Dealing Archbishop | 4/7/1941 | See Source »

Contending that the preservation of democracy will devolve upon the United States at the end of the present war, Castle pictured Japan as a possible help to this nation in its role as the champion of democracy when he said: "Japan hates communism, and will be our bulwark to the west just as Britain is our bulwark to the east...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Castle and Hopper Say No War With Japan | 3/27/1941 | See Source »

...Seriously, when are otherwise sane Americans going to graduate from fifth-grade history of 1775, into a realistic world of today where the bulwark of everything priceless in mankind's struggle upward to attainment of sacred privileges rests precariously on "a tight little island's" defiance of the most obscene attack on them ever witnessed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 24, 1941 | 3/24/1941 | See Source »

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