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SPEECH OF HONORABLE HARRY S. TRUMAN TO BE RELEASED ON DELIVERY VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUM JEFFERSON CITY, MISSOURI NARA MUTUAL BROADCASTING SYSTEM 14. BROADCAST TIME; 8:15 to 8:30 PM C.W.T. FEBRUARY22, 1945 As a son of Missouri, I am especially grateful to the people of my State for giving me this opportunity to come home. I know that apart from partisan practices every citizen of Missouri subscribes to the sound principle of our State Motto -- "Let the Welfare of the People be the Supreme Law." We of Missouri are especially fortunate in our geographical position -- near the great heart of America. Situated at the crossroads of the North and the South, as well as of the East and the West, we gradually have acquired a more tolerant understanding of the viewpoints and problems of each section of the Country. Missourians pioneered the West, and later supplied the East. Our sons fought with both the North and the South. Our State was held with the North, but suffered with the South. The mighty rivers of America flow through Missouri, like life-giving blood streams, crossed by other arteries of iron and rail. Truly, we are at the crossroads of America -- a political and economic center of gravity, which must experience all the tugs and pulls inherent in our unique position. National commentators carefully watch Missouri as a political weather