Speech of Senator Harry S. Truman to Members of the Maryland Motor Truck Association at Baltimore, Maryland

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Address of Senator Harry S. Truman of Missouri to Members of the Maryland Motor Truck Association, Baltimore, Maryland, March 25, 1939, at 7:30 P. M. FOR RELEASE ON DELIVERY Members of the Maryland Motor Truck Association: I suppose everyone here knows that this is a day of appeasement. Great nations, and some not so great, ask to be appeased. Some States in our own country want their share of appeasement. Many industries seem to be clamoring for appeasement. Just now the majority of all American industry is anxiously looking for some form of tax appeasement. Appeasement seems to be in the air. It is therefore perfectly natural that our good friends, the railroad managers and executives, should be asking for their share of appeasement, too. They have written their ideas into a Bill which recently has been introduced in the House, and is now before Congress. Other transportation bills have been introduced, and still others probably will be. These will come at an early date for consideration before the Senate Committee of which I am a member. I am not an appeaser. In considering transportation KRUMAN legislation I want to assure you gentlemen that I S NARA :

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