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    "ocrText": "-3-\nTOLEDO\nNow, I don't believe in peace at any price -- no honest\nman does. But I don't believe that because peace is difficult\nthat war is inevitable.\nFor peace, I took it upon myself to make one of the\nmost terrible decisions that any man in the history of the world\nhad to make. Near the close of the Japanese war, I had to order\nthe dropping of the atomic bomb. That was the most terrible\ndecision that any man in the history of the world had to make.\nI studied that question with everything I had. I called\nin the most able men that I could get who would give me advice.\nI talked to the Secretary of Wer. I talked to the Chief of Steff\nof the Army. I talked to the Chief of Staff of the Navy. I\ntalked to the Secretary of War, who at that time was Mr. Stimson.\nI talked to the Secretary of the Navy, who at that ime was Mr.\nForrestal. I talked to General Mershall. I talked to Admiral\nKing and Admirel Leahy, and discussed the program. And the judg-\nment of all those able and distinguished men was that it would\nbe a life-saving proposition to bring the war to a close as\nquickly as possible, and that while we might find it necessary\nto wipe out a couple of Japanese cities devoted entirely to muni-\ntions manufącture, in the long run we would save a quarter of a\nmillion young Americans from being killed, and we would save an\nequal number of Japanese young men from being killed. And I\nordered that bomb to be dropped. I never want to have to do that\nagain, my friends. I never want to have to do that again. Right\nthen and there I made up my mind that that must never happen\nagain if it could conceivably be avcided. My friends, I an work-\ning for peace, end everybody knows it. Everybody knows that I\nam doing everything I possibly can as President of the United\nStates to get a just and lasting peace -- and that, my friends,\nis the nost importent thing in this world. I would much rather\nhave that peace than to be President of the United States. I am\ntrying to dispel the dark cloud of fear and suspición -- and\neverybody knows that too. And I am keeping the United States\nstrong and firm as well as fair and friendly -- and the whole\nworld knows that.\nАННИЯ\nARCHIVES ANDS NATIONAL TOTAL\nSERVICE\nU.S.\nThat's what worries the Communists. The Communists\nwant 8 Republicon victory. Think about that chrefully now. They\nare helping the Third Party to split the Democratic Party S0 the\nRepublicans can win, and the Communists want a change in adminis-\ntration. They are supporting that Third Party. -- and they know\nthat it has no chance of winning -- but they do hope that the\nThird Party will take enough votes away from the Democrats SD the\nRepublicans can win.\nI know there are many fine people in this country who\nare accustomed to voting the Republican ticket. But they should\nconsider well the strange bedfellows the Republican Party has\nthis year.\nCommunists count on 8 actionary Republican dministra-\ntion to make all the mistakes that ignorance and greed can inspire.\nAnd they expect that a Republican Administration will reduce the\nAmerican people to enother Hoover depression that will undermine\nthe Marshall Plan and pave the way for world revolution. That's\nwhat they want. That's what the Communists want.\nThe Communists believe that a Republican victory means\na weak United States. And that is exactly what I think -- we're\ntogether on that. But I am going to beat them and there won't\nbe a weak United States.\nNow, we mustn't let that happen. There is only one\nway to stop the spread of communism in this Nation and in the\nworld, and that is by the application of real Democratic principles.\nWe must keen on working for the Democratic programs that make this\nNation strong. That is our best national defense. That is our\nanswer to the threst of world war and the plan for world revolution.\nBecause it is the right answer, I know we are going to\nwin this election for that very reason.\n(OVER)"
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