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OCR Page 1 of 8Speech of Senator Harry S. Truman of Missouri
at Welch, West Virginia, on Armistice Day,
November 11, 1941.
TO BE RELEASED ON DELIVERY.
I appreciate very much the invitation to address you today. We have
marched this morning in celebration of the Twenty-third Anniversary of the
signing of the Armistice on Nowember 11, 1918. What a glorious day that was to
those of us who were on the front that day! It meant we'd no longer have to
live in dug-outs. It meant we'd no longer have to dodge German 77's and 150's,
nor duck our heads for minnewerfers and machine gun bullets. It meant we'd no
longer have to run for cover when we heard the hum of a plane. It meant that
we'd soon be back in God's Country, where we could live in peace.
To those of you who were at home it meant as great a relief as it did
to those on the front. It was the answer to the prayers of those brave mothers
who had given their sons to the country. It gave all of us a wonderful chance
to appreciate the meaning of peace. We all. hoped that wars were ending as a
means of the settlement of international disputes. Some of us even looked for-
ward to the dawn of a new day in world affairs. But we were doomed to a sore
disappointment.
Those of us who were a part of that great conflict are the strongest
advocates of world peace. None of us wants another war. But the situation in
Europe may so develop that war for us will be the outcome. That situation has
been brought about by two thousand years of history. When Rome was at the
zenith of its power under Augustus Caesar, the present situation was being
brewed.
There have been four men in the history of Europe who had a solution
to the present condition of that much-troubled continent. They were Julius
Caesar, King Henry IV of France, Napoleon and Woodrow Wilson. That seems
a
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queer combination, but let me show you what I mean. All four of these great
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