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OCR Page 1 of 13SPEECH OF SENATOR HARRY S. TRUMAN
RELEASE UPON DELIVERY TO THE SEMATE
We have been informed that in order to obtain an Army of
7,700,000 men by the end of this year and to fill Navy requirements,
it will be necessary to induct about 1,221,000 more men, 446,000 of whom
will have to be pre-Pearl Harbor fathers.
Fathers make no claims to any special rights They are just
as patriotic as anyone else, and many of them would doubtless volunteer
if they thought that they would be accepted for combat duty and would
have the privilege of facing the enemy in actual combat. However, most
of them are older men and !would be accepted for limited duties only --
duties which many of them honestly believe are less valuable to the war
effort than those in which they are now engaged.
If the war effort can best be served by taking these men, then they
must be taken. The hardships upon their families, although a most
important consideration, is secondary.
The determination of whoro and how we shall fight and what we shall
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