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The dictatorial of Tomania, the conquer of Osterlich, the future emperor

of the world a mans voice said.


The soldier asked Charles to speak. Charles said he couldnt speak. You
must, its our only hope the soldier said.
Charles said he was sorry, but I didnt want to be an emperor. He said
that was not his business. He said he didnt want to rule or conquer
anyone but he should like to help everyone - if possible - Jew, Gentile black man - white. Charles said that we all wanted to help one another,
he said human beings are like that. He said we wanted to live by each
others happiness - not by each others misery, we didnt want to hate
and despise one another. Charles said that in this world there is room for
everyone and the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. He
said that the way of life could be free and beautiful, but we have lost the
way.
Charles said that greed had poisoned mens souls, had barricaded the
world with hate, had goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. He
said that we had developed speed, but we had shut ourselves in. He said
that machinery that gave abundance had left us in want. He said that
our knowledge had made us cynical and our cleverness, hard and
unkind. Charles said that we thought too much and felt too little; more
than machinery we need humanity, more than cleverness we need
kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and
all will be lost Charles said.
Charles said that the aeroplane and the radio had brought us closer
together and that the very nature of those inventions cried out for the
goodness in men, cried out for universal brotherhood and for the unity of
us all. Charles said that even then, his voice was reaching millions
throughout the world, millions of despairing men, women, and little
children, victims of a system that made men torture and imprisoned
innocent people.
To those who can hear me, I say do not despair Charles said. He said
that the misery that was now upon us was but the passing of greed, the
bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress. He said that the
hate of men would pass, and dictators die, and the power they had taken
from the people will return to the people and so long as men die, liberty
would never perish.
Charles asked the soldiers not to give themselves to brutes, men who
despised them, enslaved them, who regimented their lives. He said
those men told them what to do, what to think and what to feel! He said
they were man who drilled them, diet them, treat them like cattle, used

them as cannon fodder. Charles asked the soldiers not to give yourselves
to those unnatural men, machine men with machine minds and machine
hearts! He told the soldiers they were not machines! They were not
cattle! He told them they were men! He told the soldiers they had the
love of humanity in their hearts! He told them they didnt hate and that
only the unloved hate, the unloved and the unnatural. Soldiers! Dont
fight for slavery! Fight for liberty! Charles said.
He said that in the 17th Chapter of St Luke it was written: the Kingdom
of God is within man, not one man nor a group of men, but in all men!
In them! He said that the people had the power to create machines and
to create happiness! He said they were the people who had the power to
make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure.
Then, in the name of democracy, let us use that power, let us all unite,
let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men a chance
to work, that will give youth a future and old age a security, by the
promise of these things, brutes have risen to power but they lie! They do
not fulfil that promise. They never will! Charles said.
Charles said that dictators freed themselves but they enslaved the
people. Now let us fight to fulfil that promise! Let us fight to free the
world, to do away with national barriers, to do away with greed, with
hate and intolerance. Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where
science and progress will lead to all mens happiness. Charles said.
Charles said the soldiers in the name of democracy, let us all unite!
Charles asked Hannah if she could hear him and he said that wherever
she was the clouds were lifting and the sun was breaking through. He
said they were coming out of the darkness into the light. He said they
were coming into a new world where men would rise above. He said that
the soul of man had been given wings but at last he was beginning to fly.
He said that man was flying into the rainbow, into the light of hope, into
the a glorious future that belonged to her, to him and to all of us.

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