America Has Enough of Everything - But Faith by Senator Harry S. Truman
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AMERICA HAS ENOUGH OF EVERYTHING - BUT FAITH
nor 1-1943
By Harry S. Truman
United States Senator from Missouri
Hitler once counted on a crisis on our home front to insure his
final triumph. He now counts on it to prolong the war, save him from final
ruin and rob us of complete victory. He may be right.
It is the job of the Senate War Investigating Committee, of which I
am chairman, to look at the home front and make recommendations. We have
listened to hundreds of competent witnesses. We have taken five million words
of testimony. We have issued 21 major reports. I have travelled over 100,000
miles to hundreds of cities and nearly every important war plant in the country.
I am convinced that our most important investigation remains to be
made. That investigation would take us past the front office, past blue-prints
and machines and into the hearts of workers and managers. It would deal with
shortages - not of materials, but of patriotism; not of manpower but of will-
power. It would be concerned, not only with wages, prices and profits, but
with lack of teamwork, easy ethics, expediency, prejudice, apathy, greed.
For what is now desperately wrong with our home front is not materials,
machinery or skills - but the spirit of our people.
An American soldier on the eve of last Independence Day put it this way:
"What we 've got is the Fourth of July coming up and the country we are
fighting for is fighting itself. I want to be proud of my country. The country
is too damned big and too damned beautiful to carry on like this."
Recently, Donald Nelson and Charles Wilson of the War Production Board
met with spokesmen for industry and labor. Out of their off-the-record delibera-
tions came this conclusion: the nation's industrial output could be increased by
at least 30% if there were an increase, among management and men, of the will to
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