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Address 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 KRUMAN NARA