Speech by Senator Harry S. Truman Before the Meeting of the Executives' Club of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
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OCR Page 1 of 16SPEECH TO BE DELIVERED BY SENATOR HARRY S. TRUMAN
BEFORE THE MEETING OF THE EXECUTIVES CLUB OF
CHICAGO, AT HOTEL SHERMAN, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS,
AT 12:00 O'CLOCK NOON, ON JUNE 4, 1943
TO BE RELEASED ON DELIVERY
Mr. Chairman and friends: It is a pleasure for me to have the
privilege to meet today with the membership of The Executives Club in this
great city of Chicago. It is indeed an honor to be a guest in the great
state of Illinois, so ably represented in the United States Senate by such a
distinguished statesman as my friend and colleague, Scott Lucas. 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 -- amongst ourselves -- 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 the fighting men of the United States are offering their
lives that these principles shall be maintained. On land, on sea, and in
the air these fighting men of ours are carrying the var to our enemies where-
over they may be. Americans are fighting -- as they have always fought in the
past -- with honor and with 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. Our President early determined that adoquate
defense of this nation against our enomies compelled us to institute a program
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