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When Franklin Delane Roosevelt enters the White House on March fourth next, he will assume his now duties with the overwhelming approval of a sovereign people. His party will control Congress by large majorities; his personal victory will go down in history as one of the greatest landslides ever, recorded by a Democratic candidate. The fog and hysteria of a campaign have dissipated before cold numbers; the Digest Poll is again right...
Some 40,000,000 U. S. citizens this week looked forward to exercising their sovereign power over their Government. Rich & poor, black & white, male & female, busy & idle, wise & foolish, they had all been through three years of the hardest times in their country's history. At least ten million willing workers were the Idle Poor. Five thousand banks had gone under. In man's memory wheat prices had never been lower. Taxes were piled on top of the galling burden of private debt. Savings had been swept away by waves of industrial failure...
...that's Dry in sovereign Maine, But intimately Wet as rain...
...Such an equation] would convert men into animals thinking of only one thing-of being fed and fattened; reduced, therefore, to a pure and simple vegetable life." Democracy. "Democratic regimes can be defined as those in which, from time to time, the people are given the illusion of being sovereign. . . . Fascism rejects in democracy the absurd, conventional lie of political equality." Bismarck. Seemingly II Duce finds the touchstone of Fascist policy in "Bismarck, who never knew where the house of the Religion of Liberty was and of what prophets it made use." Stressing that Germans grew to be a world...
...great fact that the agreement had satisfied Mahatma Gandhi. It was said that to the agreement proper His Majesty's Government appended "certain reservations"?and the Kingdom of Egypt is regulated from London by means of "reservations" inserted when His Majesty's Government "recognized it as an independent sovereign State" in 1922. Observers could assume no more than that Mr. Gandhi had received convincing assurances that the caste barriers (which he has fought so long to break down) will not be strengthened by the form which India's electoral laws finally take...