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OCR Page 1 of 7SPEECH OF SENATOR HARRY S. TRUMAN
TO BE DELIVERED
RELEASE ON DELIVERY
We are now in the third year of this terrible war. We are spurred by the
grim determination to wage this war relentlessly on all fronts and on all seas un-
til all those who have chosen to live by the sword have perished by it. We now
have neither the time nor the inclination for self-appraisal. But when the time
comes for the historians to write the record of our participation in this great
struggle they will undoubtedly state that at this prosent period we had reached the
turning point of the war. I do not pretend that they will write that within these
past two years we had accomplished any ma jor part of the fighting which gained the
final victory. The successes of our Arms, both on land and sea, are only an indica-
tion of the greater victorios which must lie ahead. They do prove that our Military
and Naval forces are courageous, noll-trsined, compotently led, and are impolled
by the knowledge that they fight for the right.
I do not suggest that tho historians will say that at this stago of the
war the battle of production had beon won. Thoro romain long months and years of
toil for the uncomplaining men and womon who aro producing the food and the
matorials for war. But I do think that the writers of history will say that at
this date our countrymen had conditioned thomselvos to win the war. We have
grimly resolved that no sacrifice is too groat for the and we must attain -- the
completo annihilation of the aggrossors who so scriously threaton our democratic
oxistenco and idcols. At this point our people are propared to see thoir sons
die and to return woundod from the battle: to offor thoir goods, thoir minds,
and thoir muscles for the benofit of the country wo love. Bocause we have
rcachod this stato of mind and havo mado this high resolvo, the victory is cortain.
KAUMAN,
S NARA GRADD
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World War, 1939-1945
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