Speech of Senator Harry S. Truman Before the Southern Supply and Machinery Distributors at Cincinnati, Ohio
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OCR Page 1 of 16SPEECH TO BE DELIVERED BY SENATOR HARRY S. TRUMAN
BEFORE THE MEETING OF THE SOUTHERN SUPPLY & MACHINERY
DISTRIBUTORS, AT CINCINNATI, OHIO, ON MAY 12, 1943
TO BE RELEASED ON DELIVERY
Mr. Chairman and friends: It is a pleasure for me to have the privi-
lege to meet today with the membership of the Southern Supply and Machinery
Distributors in this great city of Cincinnati. In the midst of this great war
we are waging against the powerful allies of evil we can all be thankful for
the opportunity to be gathered here and to be able to discuss -- anongst our-
selves -- the problems that affect each one of us. This meeting is truly
American as it typifies the rights of a free people to meet together, at their
own time, at their own will, in their own way, and to voice their own thoughts on
any subject. This is representative of the traditional American principles of
democracy and freedom.
Today those 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 glory.
When the savage blow fell which brought the United States fully into
the war -- the dastardly attack of the Japanese on Pearl Harbor -- we were not
completely unprepared. When it became apparent that the Nazis had embarked on
a course to crush and conquer their friendly neighbors, our nation began to pre-
pare for defense against the aggressor. Our President early determined that
adequate defense of this nation against our enemies compelled us to institute a
program of armament greater than the world had ever seen before. The construc-
tion of our two ocean fleet was well on its way when the Nazis swept through
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