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    "ocrText": "Victory has brought no assurance of peace. Local vars have raged in\nGreece, Palestine, China and Indonesia, and the world is gripped by fear of\ngreater conflicts. If the disaster of world war is to be averted, now, if\never, men must use the intelligence with which they were endowed and the edu-\ncation vouchsafed them to the full and to good purpose. There can be no in-\ntelligence without memory, and no education without history. In coping with\ntoday's problems, therefore, should we not keep the events of the recent past\nin the forefront of our minds? \"hat tas the meaning and purpose of the Second\njorld Var? \"hy did we fight it, and that were our objectives? Surely those\nobjectives seemed valid at the time and made our victory a proud one; are\nthey not still valid, and do they not afford us a measure of guidance in our\npresent difficulties?\nInitially, of course, we fought because we were attacked, and our prim-\nary objective was to regain military security by subduing the German and Jap-\nanese armed forces that were bent on our defeat. Long before the end of the\nwar, hovever, our ultimate victory became a foregone conclusion, and the next\nquestion was: what use should be made of that victory? Our general objec-\ntives emerged rapidly enough and can, I think, be very simply stated. They\nwere, first: the reestablishment of world peace and the immediate succour\nof starving and homeless people by orgarized relief, and second: the eventual\nestablishment of vorld peace on such a stable and permanent footing that we\nand other countries need no longer rely for security on the maintenance of\nlarge standing armed forces, thus releasing manpower and economic resources\nfor peacetime production, raising the standard of living, and promoting a\nfruitful interchange of goods and ideas among the nations.\nTRUMAN\nARCHIVES SERVICE\" RECORDS AND 3\n\"NATIONAL\nEs"
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