“PEACE, TOO, HAS ITS VICTORIES”
TRUMAN’S MESSAGE
ISAIAH’S PROPHECY QUOTED Recd. 8 p.m. Washington, Dec. 24. President Truman, broadcasting to the nation after turning on the lights of a White House Christmas tree, said: “This is the Christmas a war-weary world prayed for through long, awful years. We met in the spirit of the First Christmas when a midnight choir sang, ‘Glory to God in the Hißhest and on Earth Peace and Goodwill Towards Men.’ With our enemies vanquished we must gird ourselves for the work that lies ahead. Peace has its victories, no less hard won, than success at arms. We must not fail or falter; we must strive, without ceasing, to make real Isaiah’s prophecy: “‘They shall beat their swords into ploughshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation shall not lift up the sword against nation; neither shall they learn war any more.’ ” ••••••••••••••••••••••••••
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 89, Issue 304, 26 December 1945, Page 5
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