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...critics: I am always a little amused and perhaps at times a little saddened-and I think the American people feel the same way-by those few writers and speakers who proclaim tearfully either that we are now committed to communism and collectivism, or that we have adopted fascism and a dictatorship. The real truth of the matter is that for a number of years in our country the machinery of democracy had failed to function. . . . There are some people, of course, who do not think things through; as, for example, the man who complained in one of yesterday morning...
...there is no doubt under whose auspices the spreading is being done. The main rumor has it that there may be a Hapsburg restoration; but circulating a bit more surreptitiously is another rumor, that in order to prepare Austria for the restoration, Prince Starhemberg may find it necessary to proclaim himself Regent as Admiral Horthy did in Hungary...
...therefore, be it known that I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States . . . do hereby-proclaim, order, direct, declare and fix the weight of the gold dollar...
Going even further than the text of the 3,000 pastors' protest, the rector of Berlin's fashionable Jesus Christ Church cried: "When the government of the Church compels its preachers to proclaim that all other nations are inferior in comparison with the Nordic Germanic race, it is guilty of an arrogance and an uncharitableness that has no parallel in history. No Christian should dare even to breathe the suggestion of a 'ghetto church...
...brimmed plush hat of sandy hue above his leathery face, took the steps in a rolling cowboy gait. The one who looked like a church deacon, Clyde Herring of Iowa, marched along sedately. Wrinkled Albert George Schmedeman, who had been debating with himself all day whether or not to proclaim martial law in Wisconsin, looked troubled and tiny beside moose-tall William Langer of North Dakota, who chews cigars with the cellophane wrapper peeled halfway down and whose wheat embargo was one of the starkest symptoms of the matter they had all come to discuss. Accompanied by big, rawboned George...