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NARA SPEECH DELIVERED AT LARCHMONT, NEW YORK, APRIL 20, 1937, by SENATOR HARRY S. TRUMAN MJOMAROMBM It is a very great pleasure to be with you this evening, and I appreciate the privilege. I am going to discuss with you, for a few minutes, national defense and its re- lationship to peace. We are a peace-loving nation, and all of us hate the very thought of war. None of us wants to see another World War in which we are likely to be in- volved; particularly those of us who were in the last one. But we must not close our eyes to the possibility of another war, be- cause conditions in Europe have developed to a point likely to cause an explosion at any time. We celebrated the twentieth anniversary of our entrance into the last war, preaching against another war, and hoping for continued

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