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Made just before America would be forced into the Second World War, this short subject is a brief dramatized history of American democracy. It targets a perceived threat to democracy from board room and soapbox fascists who advocated a government based upon contemporaneous European models.
Cast
John Nesbitt, Clem Bevans, Joe Devlin, Robert Dudley, Albert Russell
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