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OCR Page 1 of 7Speech of Senator Harry S. Truman of Missouri
November at Welch, 11, liest 1941. Virginia, COP
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TAUINAN ARCHIVESAN
TO EB RELEASED ON DELIVKRK
ADKING"
I approciate very ruch the Invitation to addrosa you today. We have
marched this worning in selebration of the Twonty-third Anniversary of the
signing of the Armistice on Novenber 11, 1918, What a glorious day that was to
those of us who were on the front that day4 It seant we'd no longer have to
live in dug-outs. It meant wo'd no longer have to dodge German 77's and 150*s
nor duck our heada for ninnwwerfers and mokine gun bullets. It meant wo'd no
longer have to run for dover when wo heard the hum of a plane. It neant that
we'd soon be back in God's Country, whoro we could live in peaco.
To those of you who were at homo it meant as great a relief ao 1t did
to those on the front. It was the anneor to the prayers of those brave mothers
who had given their sons to the country. It gave all of us a wonderful chance
to appreciate the monning of ponce. The all hoped that wars mero ending na a
means of the rettloment of international disputes. Some of ue even looked for-
ward to the damn of a nm day in world affairs. But we were doomed to a sore
Those of us who were a part of that great conflict are the strongest
advocates of world peace. None of us wants another war. But the situation in
Europe may ao develop that war for us will be the outcoue. That situation has
been brought about by teo thousind years of history. Then was at the
genith of ita power under Augastus Caesar, the present situation was being
brewed,
Thore have been four then in the history of purope who had a solution
to the presont condition of that much-troubled continent. They were Julius
Caesar, King Henry IV of France, Napoleoo and Woodrow Wilson. That seems a
queer exalination, but let na show you what I moan. All four of these groat
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