Speech of Senator Harry S. Truman Before the Fraternal Order of Eagles, Newark, New Jersey
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OCR Page 1 of 11SPEECH OF SENATOR HARRY S. TRUMAN
BEFORE FRATERNAL ORDER OF EAGLES
AT NEWARK, NEW JERSEY,
ON MARCH 16, 1943, AT 8:00 P.M.
TO BE RELEASED ON DELIVERY
Mr. Chairman and Fellow Eagles: It gives me great pleasure to be with
my fellow Eagles this evening in the great city of Newark--8 city typifying all
those things that make America. I am indeed happy to share in this gathering of
our fraternal order which has taken its stand on the traditional American prin-
ciples of democracy and freedom.
Today those principles are endangered by foreign enemies. The freedom
that we have so long cherished is in peril. America is being attacked on every
side -- in the Atlantic, the Pacific, the Caribbean. American lives are being
lost and American ships are being sunk, but Americans are fighting -- as they
have always fought in the past, with honor and with glory.
This world-wide war will determine for generations to come whether we
will live in a world of democracy and individual liberty, or in a world enslaved,
brutalized, and terrorized by barbarous aggressors. The pattern is clear, the
enemy has embarked on a path of world-wide conquest -- the ultimate goal the
complete and utter subjugation of all nations of the world. This is his challenge
to the United Nations. We have accepted that challenge.
To take the offensive and win this war -- and we must take the offensive,
because wars are not won on the defensive -- we must produce vast amounts of in-
struments of war. We must equip the forces of the United Nations to carry the
war to the enemy wherever he may be -- and carry it successfully. On
the battle-
fronts of the world our fighting men need planes, tanks, ships and guns, and they
need them now. We have already suffered serious reverses because our forces have
not been adequately equipped, We shall not allow this to continue. I have said
before, I say now, and I will say again, that American lives must not be lost be-
cause of inadequate equipment.
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