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Harry Truman: “We intend increasingly to help one another in the efforts of each to help himself.”

On the recordOctober 11, 1949
We intend increasingly to help one another in the efforts of each to help himself.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

Editor's note · Context

Remarks at a Meeting With the Ambassadors to the Council of the Organization of American States

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