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OCR Page 1 of 24Address of Honorable Harry S. Truman, Chairman
Special Senate Committee Investigating the War Program
To be released upon delivery over the Blue Network
Monday, October 4, 1943 at 9:30 P.M. Central War Time
Shenandoah, Iowa
THE FIGHT FOR QUALITY PRODUCTION
Today we are engaged in total war. Victory or defeat depends
upon our armed forces, but they, in turn, are dependent upon what we
give them with which to fight. They are risking their lives. They
are entitled to the best that we can give them.
Their needs are determined by the Procurement Officers of
the Army and Navy. The Army and Navy specify what war materials
they want, and ask business to produce them in accordance with the
Army and Navy specifications.
Business contracts to supply materials that conform to
these specifications Common honesty requires that business should
not foist off upon the government materials that do not conform to
contract. But more than honesty is involved here. Our soldiers and
sailors are dependent upon those materials for their lives, and our
nation is dependent upon them for its liberty, and even for its
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