Speech of Senator Harry S. Truman Before the National Aviation Forum, Washington, D.C.

Speech of Senator Harry S. Truman of Miasouri to the National Aviation Forum, May flower Estel TO February BE RELEASED 20, 1939 ON DELIVETY, C My subject thie evening is rather a large one -- "The Tradition of American Security". Bearch for security ves what caused the first settle- ment on the Atlantic cosst of North America. Pilgrims and Puritane came that they might worship God. to suit themselves, and as noon as they could do it, they immediately became persecutors of those among them who hed other notions than theirs about worship, and Rhode Island and Providence Plantationa of Roger williams was the result. Huguenots cane to the Carolinas a.8 a result of the Ediet of Nantes ao they could be secure in their rights of religion. Lord Daltimore brought his Catholic followers to Maryland for the same reason. Written in 1776, the Declaration of Independence states certein inalienable rights to which all people are entitled, among them security in person end property. The Colonists were in constant fear of attack by Red Nen and were in almost continual argument with the mothor country over certain rights and privileges, as well as with the French on the north and sest. When the Colonies became the United States of America a foreign policy was insugurated by George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and James Monroe -- "No entangling alliances. America for Americans." Mr. Jefferson atretched the Constitution until it cracked to make the young netion secure on its western frontier by making the Louisiana Purchase. That security was further enhanced by pushing the western boundary to the Pacific. After the War Between the States, we settled down to a policy of taking care of ourselves and e fancied isolation because we were fortified by two great oceans and the Monroe Poetrine. And then came the Spanish War, for which we were not prepared and from which we had to enter upon a Pacifie (Oeean not peace) policy. No matter what we may say about it the Fhilippine Commonweslth romes I Ks GOVER