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Harry Truman: “The treaty we are gathered here to sign has not been drawn in a spirit of revenge.”

On the recordSeptember 3, 1951
The treaty we are gathered here to sign has not been drawn in a spirit of revenge.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

Editor's note · Context

Address in San Francisco at the Opening of the Conference on the Japanese Peace Treaty.

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