Comments by Senator Harry S. Truman

June 1-1943 "Words may hold the power of life and death. But only when the words are true words. And only when the power of those words is sup- ported by material accomplishment. Unfounded words are the certain augury of unconditional surrender for the nations who, lulled by their own baseless propaganda, will go down to defeat. **hhat are they ( the free nations of the world) counting on?" Adolph Hitler asked in his January 30, 1941 speech, "On help from out- side? From America? I can only say this: We have calculated every possibility from the first." "President Roosevelt announced in his report to the U.S. Congress on Lend Lease operations, issued on May 25, 1943, that Lend-Lease ship- ments to the Soviet Union alone up to April 1 had totalled 3,500,000 gross tons. Russia has received more than 1,000,000 tons of food, thou- sands of planes, and many tens of thousands of trucks, jeeps and other military vehicles. "Russia is counting on help from its comrade of the United Nations-- the United States. That help, arriving in large quantities, is aiding to upset Hitler's false calculations. "Goebbels said on November 17, 1942: "Americans imundate the world with an armament program based on pure bluff." "But Goebbels has never contended that 200,000 Axis troops in Tu- nisia laid down their arms in abject surrender -- before pure bluff. He admitted then, that the debacle of the self-styled "master-race" was due to larger numbers of fighting men, equipped with a greater amount of more efficient weapons. "U. S. Undersecretary of War Robert P. Patterson, in a speech on May 25, 1943, said: "Since Pearl Harbor, the United States has produced NARA