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self and to those about him, to come forward at once. Inj addition, there is
hardly one of us who can't add further help by buying Defense bonds and stamps
to the limit of one's purse.

When we have done this, when we have worked and given of our time
to Civilian Defense, when we have bought and are resolved to continue to buy,
all the stamps and bonds we possibly can afford, then indeed, we can take satis-
faction in saying to ourselves, "Well, I really am doing what I can to preserve
America against defeat. "

Being a peace-loving people, America failed to heed the obvious signs of
enemy preparation. We are to a point, now, however, where we must redouble*
every effort to overcome delays of the past. If our gallant American forebears,
if the Marylanders of 300 years ago, could risk their lives and their fortunes
and endure untold hardships in the pursuit of an ideal, certainly we, who have
drunk deeply of the advantages of American Democracy, can do no less than
give our all to its preservation.

 

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