WORLD OPINION, SAYS PRESIDENT TRUMAN, WOULD RENOUNCE WAR
WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 (Recd. 6 p.m.)—President Truman said today that while peoples living under a dictatorship were :“made to respond to our handclasp with a mailed fist,” the United States had to stand ready in self-defence.
The President declared that if U.S.A, could mobilise the opinion of the peoples of the world there would never be another war, but he added: “This we cannot do alone, 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.”
President Truman spoke at Arlington National Cemetery in accepting a carillon memorial to the war dead of American ex-servicemen. He referred indirectly to U.S.A. foreign assistance programmes when he said that this “generous sharing of our material goods” had restored to many peoples faith in themselves.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 23 December 1949, Page 5
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