Speech of Senator Harry S. Truman Before the National Industrial Conference Council at New York, New York
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OCR Page 1 of 12SPEECH BY SENATOR HARRY S. TRUMAN OF MISSOURI
BEFORE THE NATIONAL INDUSTRIAL CONFERENCE COUNCIL
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1942
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Mr. Chairman, and Members of the National Industrial Conference
Council, I have been asked to discuss the relation between business and
government in the present war.
We are engaged in a struggle for survival, and we must win
this war no matter what the cost. To lose the war is to lose every-
thing. But we must always bear in mind that we are fighting the war
to preserve democracy and the American way or living and that so far as
is consistent with winning the war we should cherish and preserve our
liberties.
To that end, the Senate Committee, of which 1 have the honor to
be Chairman, has had a double purpose: first, to force the realization
that we must achieve, as nearly as possible, an all-out war effort, and
second, that this must be done in such a way as to enable us at the end
of the war to return to the American way of life.
lt is easier to find fault than to find the remedy. The
Committee has found much that was faulty, but has reported only a part
of it, and that only in such ways and at such times as the Committee
honestly believed would promote better results.
Most of you are today engaged either directly in the production
of war materials or in making materials to be used in the production of
war materials. You undoubtedly realize how much better off we would be
if the War and Navy Departments had, at the beginning of the program,
known more definitely what they needed and how much they needed. That
they did not know is not in and of itself any cause for condemnation.
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The needs of a great army on many fronts in a war such as that being
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