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-3- 690 attack targets of the British Air Force last night: Danzig, Gelsenkirchen, Mannheim, the Kruppwerke in Essen, the Focker-Werke in Amsterdam, Dortmund, Duisburg, Bremen, Kiel, Dessau, Munich, Dresden, Cherborug, Le Havre, Dunkirchen, Vlissingen, Lorian and 14 enemy airfields. Yesterday by day the ports of Calais and Boulogne were attacked. Of all these operations, only 5 British machines did not return. Roosevelt gave his first public speech after the election on the occasion of the ceasefire day. His speech was a confession of his subdued belief in the democratic form of government, which was born in ancient Greece and brought to full development by the political genius of the Anglo-Saxon peoples. In igl4 an attempt was made to destroy this building and instead to set up a doctrine that power also springs from law. This attempt was brought to a failure by our help. She and I, who defended the country during the World War, saw in the years following the war the efforts of some of our compatriots who wanted to make us believe that the sacrifice was in vain. In two hundred years, historians will mark such attempts as petty branding and will say that the resistance offered by the democracies in 1 940 would have been impossible if the Axis powers of lgl8 had won the victory against the allied nations at that time. America is proud of its share in the preservation of democracy in that war. I don't think democracy can be wiped out. I do not think that the attempt @lingen will kill the seed that has so solidly stirred up. I do not believe that the world can return to a modern form of ancient slavery or to a form of government that can rely on a modern feudalism, a modern empire, a contemporary dictatorship, or a modern oligarchy. I believe that peoples who are now sighing under the iron booty of dictatorships will one day rebel. We are clear in the year l940 about facts which were not present in lgl4. We fight with all our power to keep the order of democracy unspoilt, which was favored in the free America. The American naval minister Colonel Nocks found very decisive words about the forthcoming exchange of ideas between Germany and Russia. In a speech on the occasion of the ceasefire day, the Minister said: "We see the obvious will of Germany strengthened by the fact that it mown Russia for cooperation with the plans of totalitarian states aimed at world power and world domination. We will not only meet this with words. Not what we say has value, but what we do. On the occasion of the ceasefire day, General de Gaulle gave a speech in Leopoldville in which he declared that the free French would not follow the example of traitors, nor do they follow Marshal Foch's example. General Sikorski said in a speech to the Polish soldiers that they could believe today more than before in the final victory of the Allies. Also this war will end with the defeat of Germany. - 4-