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SPEECH TO BE DELIVERED BY SENATOR HARRY S. TRUMAN BEFORE THE JOINT MEETING OF THE SOUTHERN HARDWARE JOBBERS ASSOCIATION AND THE AMERICAN HARDWARE MANU- FACTURERS ASSOCIATION, AT THE PEABODY HOTEL, MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE , ON APRIL 13, 1943, AT 10:00 0' CLOCK IN THE MORNING. 53 ARCHIVES "INATIONAL RECOROS ADMIN AND the ANNAN TO BE RELEASED ON DELIVERY Es Mr. Chairman and friends: It is a pleasure for me to have the privilege to meet today with the joint membership of the Southern Hardware Jobbers Association and the American Hardware Manufacturers Association. In the midst of this great war we are waging against the powerful allies of evil - we can all be thankful for the opportunity to be gathered here and to be able to discuss - amongst ourselves - the problems that affect each one of us. This convention is truly American as it typifies the rights of a free people to meet together, at their own time, at their own will, in their own way, and to voice their own thoughts on any subject. This is representative of the +raditional American principles of democracy and freedom. ay those principles are endangered by foreign enemies. The freedom that have so long cherished is in peril. America is being attacked on every ide - in the Atlantic, the Pacific, the Caribbean. American lives are being lost and American ships are being sunk, but Americans are fighting -- as they have always fought in the past, with honor and with glory. In taking the offensive to win this war, we must produce vast amounts of instruments of war. We must equip the forces of the United Nations to carry the war to the enemy wherever he may be -- and carry it successfully. On the battlefronts of the world our fighting men need planes, tanks, ships and guns, and they need them now.