Speech of Senator S. Truman at Liberty Memorial, Kansas City, Missouri
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OCR Page 1 of 7Speech of Senator Rerry S. Truman of Missouri
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TO Armistice at Liberty BE RELKASED Day, Memorial, November ON DELIVARY 11 C OF
I appreciate very much the invitation to address you today. We have
merched this morning in celebration of the Twentieth Anniversary of the signing
of the Armistice on November 11, 1918. What e glorious day thet was to those
of us who were on the front that day! It meent we'd no longer have to live in
dugouts. It meent we'd no longer have to dodge German 77% and 150's, nor
duek our heade for minnewerfers end machine gun bullets. It mesnt we'd no
longer have to run for cover when we heard the hum or a plane. It mesnt thet
we'd soon be back in God's Country, where we could live in pance.
To those of you who were et home it meant as groat a rolief as it did
to those on the front. It was the answer to the preyers of those brave mothers
who had given their sons to the country. It geve all of us a wonderful chance
to appreciate the meaning of peace. We ell hoped that wars were ending as a
neans of the settlement of international disputes. Some of us even looked for-
werd to the dewn of a new day in world affairs. But tre were doomed to a sore
disappointment.
Those of us who were a part of that great conflict are the strongest
advocates of world peace. None of us went another wer. But the situation in
Europe may DO develop that war will be the outcome. That situation has boen
brought about by two thousend years of history. When Home was at the zenith
of its power under Augustue Caesar, the present situation ves being breved.
There have bean four men in the history of Europe who hnd a solution
to the present condition of that auch-troubled continent. They were Julius
Caesar, King Henry IV of Freace, Napoleon and Woodrow Wilson. That seens a
queer combination, but let me ehow you what I nean. All four of these great
nen failed of their ultimate purpose. had eny one of them succeeded, the
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