Speech of Senator Harry S. Truman Before the Kansas City Real Estate Board, Kansas City, Missouri
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OCR Page 1 of 7SPEECH OF SENATOR HARRY S. TRUMAN
TO BE DELIVERED BEFORE THE KANSAS
CITY REAL ESTATE BOARD, KANSAS CITY,
MISSOURI, ON DECEMBER 31, 1943, AT
12:00 O'CLOCK NOON.
TO BE RELEASED ON DELIVERY
I am honored to be invited here today to take part in this luncheon
meeting of the Kansas City Real Estate Board. Such organizations as yours have
played an important role in the building and development of our great nation.
The importance of the work of the real estate boards throughout the country
will be re-emphasized and actively demonstrated in the post-war period, when
all our resources -- our material wealth, our scientific skill and ingenuity,
our educational institutions, our moral unity and religious faith -- must be
mobilized in order to bring us through the transition period from war to peace
and insure a decent political and economic order for future generations. It
is a difficult and complex future we are facing but I do not hesitate to voice
this belief: it will be a good future if we have the wisdom and courage to make
it so.
The Special Senate Committee Investigating the National Defense Pro-
gram, of which I am Chairman, has interested itself in the various housing
problems confronting our people during war-time. We have reported our findings
concerning certain phases of defense housing. We will continue to investigate
the use of the billions of dollars appropriated for housing.
It would not be a constructive contribution to recite the statistics
of Government housing in the war effort to you. As real estate dealers you
are aware that there has been fraud and waste and inefficiency in the housing
program. You know that some of the demonstrations by the federal agencies and
the private contractors have revealed how housing should not be evolved and
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