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SPEECH 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 Many 05 NARA s