“NOT PEACE AT ANY PRICE”
MR TRUMAN’S AIM
(Rec. 11.30 p.m.) WASHINGTON, January 11. President Truman, in a speech tonight at a reception given by the Democratic Party’s national committee in honour of new Democratic members of Congress, said he did not want peace at any price. The President continued: *‘l want peace with freedom and justice. This country and the other free countries must band together and put morals above materialism.” The President said that the peoples of the free nations were faced by a people who made commitments only to break them. “These people are not immoral, but unmoral,” he added. Mr Truman appealed for national unity during the present crisis. He said: “I sincerely hope Congress will remember that honour and justice are greater for your children and mine than fat and ease.” Mr Truman said he was doing the best job he could for the united States and the free world, with no concern for criticism directed at his administration. Other American Presidents. including Washington, Jefferson, Jackson, and Wilson, had been viciously criticised by the press and others. •, J “No one was more bitterly attacked than Andrew Jackson. He didn’t care, and neither do I,” said Mr Truman.
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Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26319, 13 January 1951, Page 7
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