James Holland

Oof.

Since then, we've had the pandemic, global trade wars, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

It's not good.

And politics is disrupted.

The economies are disrupted.

That stability, that vision, that idea that...

That economic prosperity and international collaboration protects and nurtures democracy.

That is slightly being tested.

Not even slightly, very much being tested right now.

We should leave with that amazing line that Truman says to the press in October 1947.

when he's asked whether he's going to get credit for the Marshall Plan.

But the point is, he's not looking for personal glory.

He's doing it because it's the right thing to do.

And he was too self-righteous.

But Roosevelt was smart enough to know- Yeah, he had the political acumen not to fall down that trap.

And don't worry, the Second World War is absolutely central to the whole thing.

So this is all about the Second World War and it's about its wider context.

In the future days which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms.

The first is freedom of speech and expression everywhere in the world.

The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way everywhere in the world.