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OCR Page 1 of 13SPEECH OF SENATOR HARRY S. TRUMAN
BEFORE FRATERNAL ORDER OF EAGLES,
AT CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ON AUGUST 15, 1943.
TO BE RELEASED ON delivery
Mr. Chairman and Fellow Eagles: It gives me great pleasure to be
with my fellow Eagles this evening in the great city of Chicago -- a city
typifying all those things that make America. I am indeed happy to share
in this gathering of our fraternal order which has taken its stand on the
traditional American principles of democracy and freedom.
Today those principles are endangered by the most desperate and
powerful forces of evil that have ever banded themselves together. This
world-wide 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. That the United Nations
shall put an end forever to the regime of the Axis madmen no one doubts.
Our fighting men are steadily and surely attacKing and destroying the outer
fortresses of the enemy. Our invincible will is stepping up the tempo of
the war and the inevitable day approaches when the gates of Rome, Berlin
and Tokyo will fall. We who remain at home must gird outselves with re-
determination to use all our resources -- our material wealth, our ingenuity,
our skill, all those attributes of mind and soul from which freedom, as we
know it, has como
TRUMAN NARA
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