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a ie . . ° $BOM: CRANCERY OFFIC ‘= ~ RLY. ARCHDIOCESE 477 Madlaca Aves Piasza. 3-745 af22 [42 Following ts text of renarke of Moet. Rev. Francie J. Spaliman, Arehbishen of Nev Tork, on the sation-eide radio program ef the Fourth Degras, Knights of Columbus, over Station WSAT, Sunday, March 22, at 16:30 F.M., and ie HELEASED FOR PUBLICATION IN THE WORKING. PAPERS OF MOMDAT, MASCH 23. Privileged to epeak before the American Legion Convention assembled in Boston on September 22, 1940, I closed my address with thease wordas "If through indifference or negligence, if through padetration sr permeation from without or corruption or dieintegwation from within, it shall come to pass that some day, some conquerer &f democracy shall etand at the tems of George Washington in Mount Vernon and with mock reverence and double meaning eyniciem salute sur country's father with these words: ‘Washington, we are here to finish your work,! God grant that 3, for one, shall oot be alive to know (t{* « Om that occasion, eighteen months ago today, comparatively fer Anericane be-~ iieved that America rowld te obliged to fight for her God=given righta. Tosight, horever, there is no real American, eoldier, sailor, or marine, man, women or child who €oee8 mot knor that. he amet fight and, if necessary, aie for the preservation of the God-given principles rhich here had theis noblest practical exemplification in history, in the government of ¢he United States of America. lang Before the birth of our Republic, even froa the wery dawn of Christianity, the Church proclaimed before the powers of paganien and the tyrennical absclutias af sonerchs, that £12 wen are equal ja their natural dignity, their destiny and in the right ta recognition by all their fellow buman belnge. When we conpare cur philosophy of govarnoent. with the bed political creed and the wores pohitical practices of those porera that beest that they e111 conquer ua, 4¢ becomes indeod eryetel clear that we are fighting for God-given righte. mS PE § fmf 2O7RSIE7 _ -_ Bas Sew WA peter ov) 2 a