Speech of Senator Harry S. Truman to the Kiwanis Club at St. Joseph, Missouri
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OCR Page 1 of 6Speech of Senator Harry S. Truman to
The Kiwania Club of St. Joseph, Missouri,
Oetober 27.
TO BE RELEASKD
1938. ON DELIVERY COP
Gentlemen of the Kiwanis Clubt
LI consider it a privilege to appear before your distinguished organiza-
tion. The Kimanis 18 always considered among the best influenees for good in
any community. I therefore appreciate your invitation. ]
I wondered what you would went me to talk about, and I went over in my
mind several subjects. First, I thought about civie affeirs because I know
Kiwenis is always interested in thet subject, and then I thought that, even
with my past experience in local government, it might not be the most diplo-
matie thing for a partisen Jacicson County Democrat to try to tell blue-blooded
Bucbanan County anything about local civil government. So that wes out.
Then I thought of railroads, a subject with which I've become rether familiar,
at least from a standpoint of finencial looting, due to my part in the
finencial investigation of the railroeds by the Senate Interstate Commerce
Committee. Then I thought that all I could asy was already a part of the
Congressional Record, and I became very euro thet every member of Kiwanie would
have already read what I'd seid and it would be just a repetition of a dry but
vital subject. Then I thought of the Lebor Relations Act end I decided that
there 1a so much heat on that, between William Green of the A. F. of L. and
John Le Lewie of the C. I. O., not to mention Tom Girdler and the Nationel
Chamber of Commerce, that I°d perhaps better stay away from that, too.
Then it occurred to me that the International Situntion might be a good
thing to discusa, es Kivenis is international end we are all interested in
peace -- perticularly as it affects our own grest country. Let me say in the
beginning thet 1 no expert on foreiga affeirs, end that what I say is my
own opinion end is not in any way reflected in the Senate or the Administration.
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