(31 Dec 1932)

CU of him speaking to the camera, addressing the people of America: "Ladies and gentlemen. I am now at the conclusion of what is very likely my lat tour in your country. I have travelled from coast to coast and visited ... cities and towns, great and small. If it should be my last visit I shall regret it, as I have made, in the course of my travels, many valued frieds. I have been impressed by the fortitude and the hopeful constructive spirit with which your country is facing its share in the worldwide depression. Bad as things may be with you, they are not so bad as they are in my country, not so bad as they are in Germany. Your country, it seems to me, has been stimulated by these difficult times to constructive effort of thought and to the creation of a greater unity in our civilsation than it has hitherto head. I have thought it is ... road that our civilisation must travel if we are not to have a repeatition, perhaps in even aggrivated form, of the troubles from which the world is suffering at the present time. If these hard times do lead, as I fully believe they will, to such a contructive and unifying effort - which many are enduring now will not have been endured in vain. There will emerge, as I hope and I believe, a world with greater security, with greater hope. A world in which men will profit by the inventions of science and not, as to often happens now, suffer through what ouight to be a means to human happiness. If this should occur then I think we may hope that future generations enjoy the fruits of our thought and our effort. It is this hope above all that should boy us up in the difficult period through which we are passing".

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