Press Release, Message from President Harry S. Truman to the United States Congress
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JUNE 1, 1945
Th be held in STRICT CONFIDENCE and: ne portion,
synopsis, or intimation to be given out or published until the
READTING of the President's Message: has begun in either the Senate
or House of Representatives, Extreme care must therefore be
exercised to avoid premäture 'publication.
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CHARLES G. ROSS
Secretary to the Prösident
TO THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES:
The primary task facing the Nation today is to win the
war in Japan - to win it completely and to win it as quickly as
possible. For every day by which 'it is shortened means a saving
of American lives.
No one can recount the success of the forces of decency
in this war without thinking of the one man who was more'
responsible for victory than any other single human being --
Franklin D. Roasevelt.
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Under his guidance, this great Nation grew to be the
most powerful military force in all history.
Undor his leadership, the Allied strategy was develeped
which broko down Hitler's fortress, crumbled Gormany itself into
ruins and unconditional surrender, and has' brought us within
'striking distance of Tokyo.
But there can be no peace in the world úntil the military
power of Japan is destroyed - with the same completeness as. was
the power of the European dictators.
To do that, we are now engaged in a process of depleying
millians of our armed forces against Japan in a mass movement
of treops and supplies and weapons over 14,000 -miles in a military
and naval feat unequalled in all history:
I think it appropriate at this time to inform the Congress
and, my countrymen of some of the problems, difficulties, and
dängers which confront us in finishing this war and how we expect
to meet them.
Those who have the heavy responsibility of directing the
Nation's military efforts do not underestimate the difficulties
of crushing an enemy defended by vast distances and animated by
desperate fanaticism.
And yet, we have adopted what is a widevelepment in
military history. In the face of a conflict with a numerous and
fanatical enemy we have undertaken during the next twolve months to
discharge approximately two million of the best söldiers the world has
ever seen.
The program for the defeat of Germany was accomplished with
an accuracy seldom attained (in war - yot we-had but little margin at
the finish. On April 1945, the last'American division to arrive in
France entered the battle line.
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