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OCR Page 1 of 7SPKEOH DELIVERED BY SENATOR HARRY S. TRUMAN
Cotober 8, 1939
Caruthersville, No.
It is a very great pleasure and a privilege to be
here to-day with my many friends. I shall alwaye be grate-
ful to this great section of the State because you believed
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in me when I needed you and I shall never forget it. I know
that you are interested in the Special Session of dongress,
and thie being the Sabbath Day, I am going to talk to you
a little while on peace. My text will be from the Sermon
on the Mount, *Love thy neighbor".
I shall begin by praying to the great Creator
of Heaven and Earth, the Divine Father of us all, to give
to our world Rulers and to those in authority wisdom and
the ability to forget their supposed wronge and to earnestly
try to bring everlasting peace and happiness to this troubled
world.
The present ei tuation in Europe has been brought
about by greed and selfishness and by a refueal of the
several nationalities which make up the population of that
continent, to learn to love their neighbors.
There are the Italians, who have been taugh; t to
fate Fronchmen and Englishmen; Greeks, Turks and Japa are
Russious, whome taught that
devils and inferior races. Then there are the Germans who
by propaganda have been brought to a state where they hate
TRUMA
NARA
all who are not of Tuetonic descent. The words, "love and
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