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ADDRESS BY SENATOR HARRY S. TRUMAN (D. MO.) beforle THE ANCIENT ORDER OF RIBERNIANS, CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA, MARCH 17, 1942 For Release on Delivery Mr. Chairman and Fellow Americans: It is a great pleasure and privilege to be the guest this evening in Charleston--the great port of the South--and to join with the members of the Ancient Order of Hibernians and their vast legion of friends in cele- brating the feast of St. Patrick. The great organization of the Ancient Order of Hibernians, steeped in tradition dating back to the year 1331 B.C. represents and typifies a race whose very name echoos and re-echoes courage, loyalty and devotion to their God and to their country. Down through the ages we Irish have always fought for Freedom: (Yes, I am proud to say that some of the blood of old Erin flows through my veins.) The history of America--its fight for freedom, its growth to the country that wo now know--and the history of the Irish in America--is one and the same, And again today when American freedom is in peril, when America is being attacked on overy sido==ir the Atlantic, the Pacific, the Carribean--when American livos are being lost, American ships are being sunk, Americans of Irish ancestry are fighting--2: thoy have always in the past, with honor and AN with glory. ADMINT U.S. and