U.S. DEFENSIVE MEASURES
MR TRUMAN SPEAKS OF NEED
“DIVISION BETWEEN FREE AND CAPTURED PEOPLES” (Rec. 9 p.m.) WASHINGTON, Dec. 21. President Truman said to-day that so long as peoples living under dictatorship were “made to respond to our handclasp with a mailed fist” the United States had to stand ready in self-defence. He said that if the United States could mobilise the opinion of the peoples of the world there would never be another war, but he added: “This we cannot do alpne, for the earth is deeply divided between free and captive peoples. There is no appeal to the brotherhood of men who live in daily fear of the concentration camp.” Mr Truman was speaking at the Arlington National Cemetery in accepting a carillon as a memorial to Americans who died in the war. He referred indirectly to the United States foreign assistance programme when he said that this “generous sharing of our material goods” had restored to many peoples faith in themselves.
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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25994, 23 December 1949, Page 7
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