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Eleanor Roosevelt — Part 1
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Washington, Monday —We are
beck in Washington. During the
trip, I read Louls Adamic's “Two
‘Way Passage.” Jt is « book that
every American should read. I
have not quile Anished it, ao I ean-
mot really discuss it, but it bas
started a trend of thought which is
ted up by the situstion on the
est Coast for the American born
depanese.
‘We know that there are Ger-
now there are Japanese ts
as these other agents, who ere
to be helpful to thelr own na-
and not to ours. But these
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Hope for Democracy Rests with U.5.
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thing suspirlous, will raport it to
the proper authorities. But the
great mass 0! our people, slemming
from these various nat‘onal tier,
must not fect that thes have sud-
@enly read io be Americans.
This is. perhaps, the greatest test
this couniry bar ever ret. Perhaps
it ls the test which Is going to show
whether the United States cen fur-
nish a petiern for the rest of the
world for the future. Our eiti-
pens come from all the nations of
the world. Some of us have seid
from time to time, that we were
the only proof that 4ifferent na-
tonaslities could lve ingether in
and understanding. eech
ing his own contribu! ion, dlf-
fereni though ft may be, to the
final unity which is the United
States.
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If, out of the prevent thay there
fe ever to come a world where iret
le live jogetber fly ih
pe, Asia or in the Ams '‘cas,
we shall heve to purniss the pe'-
tern. It is nol enough to restore
prople to an od and ovtworn pst-
fern. Peogle mcsi be given the
chance to see the porribilittes of 6
new world and to work for tL
Perhepe, on us war, fie the
ebiigetion fo prove inst eich a
may he a practical peretbii-
Hy. If we con nol meet the chal-
Senge of is'roeas to cur cizizens tf
ef very psilonal'ty, of really be-
Heving ln the Bill of Right and
making it @ reality fer a!) beya!
American titizens, rega:dies of
race, creed ne color: if we crn nat:
keep in check anti.Semilivm, ar
teclal feeling as weil os etl.
ligicus feelings, then we hell ha
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ait bumenity must now rely.
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