adapted to the circumstances of contemporary life.
My speech on that momen-
tous day was quite plain, both in
its form and thought. But, it is
not with distorted commentaries
or with the malevolent publica-
tion of isolated sentences that it
may be interpreted.
I do not retract myself, nor
do I retract any of the ideas I
expressed. On the contrary, I only
have full reason to reaffirm them
integrally. The old foxes of poli-
tics, the stubborn gossip-mon-
gers, the incorrigible non-con-
formists, lacking all civic dignity,
and even a few of good faith
who tried to spread trouble, did
not perceive, perhaps, that they
were allowing themselves to be
exploited by agents of internation-
al disturbance, paid to foment
dissension to satisfy hatred and
inconfessable aims. It is easy to
discover and identify these nox-
ious elements, the profiteers, the
makers of wars, the people
without a country willing to ne-
gotiate anything and the people
who although they have a country,
do not know how to defend it.
Many of them, undesirable elsewhere, filtered clandestinely
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