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OCR Page 1 of 10SPEECH OF SENATOR HARRY S. TRUMAN
BEFORE THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE,
CLEVELAND, OHIO, 12:00 NOON
APRIL 6, 1943
TO BE RELEASED ON DELIVERY
Mr. Chairman: It gives me great pleasure to be with the Cleveland Cham-
ber of Commerce today. I am doubly happy to be here because this is the home city
of my friend and very able colleague, Honorahle Harold H. Burton, who is a member
of the Senate Special Committee of which I am the Chairman. He is a credit to
this great State of Ohio and this city should be proud of him. All of us, who
represent the United States of America in the Congress, stand for certain great
principles of Government as outlined in the Constitution. We all believe in these
principles regardless of our political affiliations.
Today these principles are endangered by foreign enemies. The freedom
that we have so long cherished is in peril. America is being attacked on every
side -- in the Atlantic, the Pacific, the Caribbean. American lives are being
lost and American ships are being sunk, but Americans are fighting -- as they
have always fought in the past, with honor and wi th glory.
TRUMAN "NATIONAL A
APCHIVES AND
RECOROS
c s COVEL is
AUMUN.
This worldwide war will determine for generations to come whether we
will live in a world of democracy and individual liberty, or in a world enslaved
brutalized, and terrorized by barbarous aggressors. The pattern is clear, the
enemy has embarked on a path of world-wide conquest -- the ultimate goal the com-
plete and utter subjugation of all nations of the world. This is his challenge
to the United Nations. We have accepted that challenge.
To take the offensive and win this war--and we must take the offensive,
because wars are not won on the defensive- we must produce vast amounts of instru-
ments of war. We must equip the forces of the United Nations to carry the war to
the enemy wherever he may be--and carry it successfully. On the battlefronts of
the world our fighting men need planes, tanks, ships and guns, and they need them
now. We have already suffered serious reverses because our forces have not been
adequately equipped. We shall not allow this to continue. I have said before, I
say now, and I will say again, that American lives must not be lost because of
inadequate equipment.
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