Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt delivering yesterday the baccalaureate address at Brandeis University, said that Israel is today the only country in the world where the spirit which founded America still dominates. She insisted that “we here in America have lost this spirit.”
“I can think of only one ### which today contains the spirit which founded America, and that is the State of Israel,” she said. “Here, one finds all of the intense excitement and total devotion that goes into the building of a nation. I believe that we here in America have lost this sense of excitement and deep responsibility.”
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