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SPEECH OF SENATOR HARRY S. TRUMAN TO BE DELIVERED RELEASE ON DELIVERY We are now in the third year of this terrible war. We are spurred by the grim determination to wage this war relentlessly on all fronts and on all seas un- til all those who have chosen to live by the sword have perished by it. We now have neither the time nor the inclination for self-appraisal. But when the time comes for the historians to write the record of our participation in this great struggle they will undoubtedly state that at this prosent period we had reached the turning point of the war. I do not pretend that they will write that within these past two years we had accomplished any major part of the fighting which gained the final victory. The successes of our Arms, both on land and sea, are only an indica- tion of the greater victorics which must lie ahead. They do prove that our Military and Naval forces are courageous, woll-trained, compotently led, and aro impolled by the knowledge that they fight for the right. I do not suggest that the historions will say that at this stago of the war the battle of production had becn won. Thero romain long months and yoars of toil for the uncomplaining. mon and womon who aro producing the food and the matorials for war. But I do think that the writers of history will say that at this dato our countrymen had conditioned thomselvos to win the war. We havo grimly resolved that no sacrifice is too groat for the and we must attain -- the completo annihilation of the aggressors who so scriously throaton our democratic oxistenco and idoals. At this point our people are propared to see thoir sons die and to return wounded from the battlo: to offor their goods, thoir minds, and their musclos for the benofit of the country wo lovo. Bocause we have reachod this stato of mind and have mado this high resolvo, the victory is cortain. TRUMANT is NARA