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Nrtu lDrrn-(!Irtttirn CUnuuiij publlr Cllirarg All New Bernians, in these troubled tlm«B, can do worse than recall President Franklin D« Roosevelt’s message to Con gress, delivered on January 6, 1941. we offer it to you In its entirety. ”In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world found ed upon four essential human freedoms. ’’The first Is freedom of speech smd expression—every where In the world. "The second Is freedom of every person to worship God In his own way—everywhere in the world. "The third is freedom from want, which, translated into world terms, means economic understandings which will se cure to every nation a healthy peacetime life for its inhabi tants—everywhere In the world. "The fourth Is freedom from fear—which, translated Into world terms, means aworld- wlde reduction of armaments to such a point and In such a thorough fashion that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression against any neighbor—any where In the world. "That Is no vision of a dis tant millennium. It Is a def inite basis for a kind of world attainable in our own time and generation. That kind of world is the very antithesis of the so- called new order of tyranny which the dictators seek to create with the crash of a bomb. "To that new order we oppose the greater conception—the moral order. A good society is able to face schemes of world domination and foreign revol utions alike without fear. "Since the beginning of our American history we have been engaged in change—in a perpet ual peaceful revolution—a rev olution which goes on steadily, quietly adjusting itself to chang ing conditions—without the concentration camp or the quick-lime In the ditch. The world order which we seek Is the cooperation of free coun tries, working together In a friendly civilized society. "This nation has placed its destiny in the hands and heads and hearts of its millions of free men and women; and Its faith In freedom under the guidance of God. Freedom means the supre macy of human rights every where. Our support goes to those who struggle to gain those rights or keep them. Our strength Is in our unity of pur pose. "To that high concept there can be no end save victory," Roosevelt didn’t live to see World War II come to an end. Even when it did, his predic tion "for a kind of world at tainable in our own time and generation", failed to materi- &lizo FDR, ailing physlclally and possibly no longer mentally alert in his final days as the na tion’s Chief Executive, has been blamed by some for the predica ment confronting us since hostilities ceased in the global conflict. Certainly many New Berni ans, including admirers of Roosevelt, feel that various as pects of World War n, in its final European stages, were (Continued on page 8) The NEW BERN I PUBLI8HID WIIKLY -Ni MART OP PiGsiona.l Li’orary *■*•*•* NORTH 4ob Johnson 3t* r.Q\! Bern IIC 23^60 AROLINA Per dopy VOLUME 13 NEW BERN, N. C., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1971 NUMBER 47 Apollo 9 from an altitude of 130 miles. The line of sandy beaches extends virtually unbroken from Virginia’s Cape Henry at the top of the picture to the V-shaped pendant of Cape Lookout at the bottom. That large stream at the lower left is Neuse River, curving sharply at Wilkerson’s Point. New Bern is out of camera range, but Oriental and most of Pamlico County got included, as did Morehead City and Beaufort. The point on the far right is Cape Hatteras. A bridge is even visible across Mattamuskeet Lake, in the middle of the photo. Thoso white spots to the right are fluffy clouds over the Atlantic.
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