TRUMAN ON MEANS OF DEFEATING COMMUNISM IN U.S.
(10 a.m.) CHICAGO, June 6. The only way that the United States could defeat communism at home and abroad was to produce “more and a better democracy,” said President Truman in his first major speech on his western tour.
President Truman made a strong but indirect attack on the Mundt-Nixon Bill, now before Congress, that would virtually outlaw the Communist Party, saying: “You cannot stop the spread of an idea by passing a law against it. The best weapons with which to fight communism are laws fulfilling the rights of little men to homes, health, schooling, security, good jobs, fair wages and brakes on inflation.
“This is the lesson of democracy. These are goals of abundance. The nation which reaches these goals will never succumb to the evils of communism.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22657, 7 June 1948, Page 5
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