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An International Bill of Rights. To Sunday Evening Club, Northeast Harbor, ME. Aug. 9, 1942. [1] (1942)

handle is hein.ali/hrbor605103 and id is 1 raw text is: AN INTEPITATIOUAL BILL OF RIGHTS . I: ~~eard someone soy not very long ago, speaking of the war, Why consider vl%-t 'e are going to do when we win until we know whether we shall win? I don't believe any of you like the defeatist note In that questions It is not that, ...ek realize the seriousness of the present military Sitmution, 'e are not children* We iow that so far we have not won the Battle of the -within the next-two,months Egypt may be lost; that h Persian Gulf, and Irak and Iran my fall under Germn control; that the Russians may be . usihed back to the Urals and that organized resistance in Chin, may collapse. , -And yet- realizing tiat all things we hold dear .re at stake, we know we shall Sfight on until victory is won* Another quostion, howevor, has a certain surface reasonablenessa -Admitting: thIt our imnediato task is to win the war anc that the difficulty of :-this task canot-lbe exaggerated, why divert our thoughts now to the problems --of peace?- era ~ ~ L blwnL *le