Draft of Speech of Senator Harry S. Truman to the National Aviation Forum
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OCR Page 1 of 8My subject this evening is "The Tradition of American
Security. II Unfortunately, this tradition is too reminiscent
of a struggle to lock the stable door while the horse is on
the way out, a condition of affairs from which this country
has been rescued by the courage, ingenuity, and self-sacrifice
of its people--and the intervention of Divine Providence.
Too often the prophets have been without honor in their
own country, although given an attentive ear abroad. Too often
have the first tentative, even timid, steps toward a national
defense which would enable us to cope with an emergency reason-
ably to be anticipated been assailed, by wishful thinkers, as
constituting "imperialism, and fomenting a war spirit among
our citizens.
The great tragedy of this tradition has been that,
throughout our history, every dollar saved on our national
insurance premium has had to be paid for, many times over, in
blood. We have haggled in the market place when the lives of
our youth were at stake.
Our geographical situation and our national temperament
are jointly responsible for this tradition. Our forbears were
folk who came here for peace--peace above all. They wished
peace to worship the Almighty as seemed best to them. They
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