Speech of Senator Harry S. Truman Before the Post-War Planning Forum, Junior Chamber of Commerce, Cleveland, Ohio
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OCR Page 1 of 11SPEECH OF SENATOR HARRY S. TRUMAN
BEFORE THE POST-WAR FLANNING FORUM,
JUNIOR CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, CLEVE-
LAND, OHIO, ON JUNE 2, 1944, AT
8:00 IN THE EVENING.
RELEASE ON DELIVERY
RELEASE ON DELIVERY
Mr. Chairman, members of the Cleveland Junior Chamber of Commerce and
invited guests, it is a great privilege for me to be with you this evening to dis-
cuss the problems which will result from a reduction in our war production program
and from the cut-backs which will follow in such production. It is not my inten-
tion to lay down a specific program, but rather to discuss the need for construc-
tive thought in preparing for the problems which are to come. These problems will
have to be solved by the mutual cooperation of Government, business and labor. It
will require the best thoughts of our best minds.
Never in the history of the World has construction of plants and facili-
ties approached the gigantic proportions and the tremendous speed which we in
America have witnessed in the past three years. Plants and facilities built for
our war program have cost the Government approximately 15 billion dollars. This
expenditure equals the amount spent for plants and facilities in this country
during the five years of our greatest prosperity, from 1925 to 1929.
The past three years of war production have brought into awe inspiring
reality the accomplishment of our planned objective - America, the Arsenal of
Democracy
In contrast to World War I, in which our troops abroad obtained from
our Allies many of the most important items of equipment, we are now supplying
substantially all of our own needs and a large portion of the needs of the United
Nations.
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TRUMANT
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