Speech of Senator Harry S. Truman Before the National Lawyers' Guild, Detroit, Michigan
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OCR Page 1 of 11spilch OF SEUTATOR HARRY S TRUMAII belore
detroit, THE NATIONAL MICHIGAN, LAWYLRS' GUILD,DETROIT THL HOTLL statler
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MARCH 16, 1944, AT 8:00 O'CLOCI I.T THE
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I value your invitation, not only as a personal honor, but as an
expression of i terest in the work of the Congress and the Committee of which
I am Chairman.
Lawyers are making a notable contribution to the war effort. We depend
upon you to work out and administer the rules of business conduct. This is not
always easy even in a normal world. out in the last two years we have created
a new war
whole econoryy. Many of the old business and commercial rules no
1 Longer apply.
Thousands of difficult and thorny legal problems have had to be
a wed and solved correctly. They have had to be solved fast.
In this war we have had to create an enormous number of new regulations
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controls. Where they have been imperfect, usually our only remedy was to
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ite still more controls and make them SO definite and detailed that they
goy rn and restrict almost every human activity. That is part of the price which
we lust pay for war. It is no greater than the price being paid by our allies
and Sour enemies. It is what we must bid to purchase victory and freedom.
These wartime controls have no relation to politics. they were imposed
solely because of war needs. Nearly all of them were suggested by industry
and labor. Most of the government representatives dealing with them came from
private life. And these representatives are about evenly divided between
both ma jor political parties.
These restrictions must be maintained just as long as they are required
to assure victory - just that long and no longer. Personal and business liberties
and freedom from regimentation are not only abstract ideals. They are concrete
realities which impinge daily on our lives. They seriously affect our happiness
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