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OCR Page 1 of 9SPEECH OF SENATOR HARRY S. TRUMAN
"JACKSON DAY DINNER", YORK, PA.,
APRIL 15, 1944, AT 8:00 O'CLOCK
LN THE EVENING
RELEASE ON DELIVERY
RELEASE ON DELIVERY
Out of the dark retrospect of these past two years of total war,
one fact, one shining reality, now stands recorded in language that all the
world can understand.
That reality, that established and many times re-established fact,
is the tremendous hardihood of our democracy. It is the durability, under
extreme stress, of our form of government and of our rights as a people under
that government. It is the everlasting strength of those foundations which
were put down nearly two centuries ago by the architects of our nation.
The language that now advertises this strength of ours to the world
is the language of action. In action our meaning is carried, strong and clear,
So both our friends and our enemies. That is a stern rhetoric which our friends
will understand and which our enemies cannot misunderstand.
We are so close to it, I think we sometimes miss the mighty demon-
stration which these past two years have unfolded. We take for granted that
which is rather for safekeeping. We look with familiar gaze upon that which
should make our hearts exult.
It is well for us, therefore, to take new account of our nation
at war, to open our minds to the full import of these two years of action,
this proof of the toughness that is America, of the temper that is democracy.
What we accomplish, then, is simply the reaffirmation of our faith.
What we find is our own way of life--a way long despised by its enemies, long
underesteemed by the world at large, and long under attack even from within-
5, REUMAND Johns)
NARA
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