America has Enough of Everything - But Faith by Senator Harry S. Truman
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OCR Page 1 of 9AMERICA HAS ENOUGH OF EVERYTHING - BUT FAITH
By Harry S. Truman
United States Senator from Missouri
Hitler once counted on a crisis on our home front to insure his final
triumph. He now counts on it to prolong the war, save him from final
ruin and rob us of complete victory. He may be right.
It is the job of the Senate War Investigating Committee, of which I
am chairman, to look at the home front and make recommendations. We have
listened to hundreds of competent witnesses. We have taken five million
words of testimony. We have issued 21 major reports. I have travelled
over 100,000 miles to hundreds of cities and nearly every important war
plant in the country.
I am convinced that our most important investigation remains to be
made. That investigation would take us past the front office, past blue-
prints and machines and into the hearts of workers and managers. It would
deal with shortages - not of materials, but of patriotism; not of manpower
but of willpower. It would be concerned, not only with wages, prices and
profits, but with lack of teamwork, easy ethics, expediency, prejudice,
apathy, greed.
For what is now desperately wrong with our home front is not materials,
machinery or skills - but the spirit of our people.
An American soldier on the eve of last Independence Day put it this
way: "What we Ive got is the Fourth of July coming up and the country we are
fighting for is fighting itself. I want to be proud of my country. The
country is too damned big and too damned beautiful to carry on like this."
Recently, Donald Nelson and Charles Wilson of the War Production Board
met with spokesmen for industry and labor. Out of their off-the-record
deliberations came this conclusion: the nation's industrial output could be
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