Speech of Senator Harry S. Truman to Public School Children at Independence, Missouri, "Teaching Peace
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OCR Page 1 of 4TEACHING REAGE
C OP,
Armistice Day is a celebration of the ending of the
Great World War eighteen years ago--a Wer brought about by envy,
greed and misunderstanding among the great European powers.
This great country of ours became involved in an effort
to help the French and English Democracies against the Imperial
Governments of Germany and Austria, and to protect its own
honor.
Peace between nations is just like peace between
individuals. When nations really want peace, peace and tran-
quillity will reign; but when the nations become avaricious and
over-bearing, lose a sense of honor and forget humanity and their
honorable agreements, then comes war and wholesale murder, along
with untold suffering.
We all want peace. No one who has seen war wants to
see it or take part in it again. War is not necessary to the
settlement of disagreements between nations and peoples, any
more than mob violence is necessary to settle individual mis-
understandings.
Fighting instinct seems to have been natural to man
from the beginning. Savages used clubs to take what they wanted,
and to keep it. As man became more sivilized, he devised ways
to avoid personal violence in the settlement of disputes. He
created law and machinery to make it work. But in order to
effectually have individual peace, man had to have a police
force to maintain it. He set up courts to hear grievances be-
tween man and man, and the decisions of the courts are
enforced
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