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...sovereign nation may choose to drug itself with suspicion, cynicism, isolation, and history does not deny a great man his place because his aims and methods are objectionable. "History," someone has said, "is a record of events which ought not to have happened." But Joseph Stalin...
...Greek financial system lay prostrate. Finance Minister Alexander Svolos begged for confidence. Said Svolos: the country's credit is fundamentally sound, its gold reserve is worth $175,000,000. But the gold reserve is abroad, and the home reaction to Svolos' appeal was immediate: the British gold sovereign (U.S. value: $4) rose from ten trillion drachmas to 22 trillions...
...this decade, under the banners of reform, you have usurped our sovereign . power by curtailing the Bill of Rights, by short-circuiting the states, and by placing in the hands of a few men in executive commissions all the powers requisite to tyranny; and we, the people, say to you: we do not want monopolistic government, any more than we want monopolistic industry. Give us back the powers that our forefathers declared to be ours; liberate us to govern ourselves...
...Marshal Stalin has repeatedly declared himself in favor of a strong and friendly Poland, sovereign and independent, and in this our great Eastern Ally is in the fullest accord with His Majesty's Government and also, judging from public statements, with that of the United States...
...Reluctantly, but as a good soldier, I repeat that I will accept and serve in this office, if I am so ordered by the Commander in Chief of us all-the sovereign people of the United States...