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On the recordJuly 14, 1946
We are going to help them all we can with machinery and tools and the wherewithal to raise food, but it will be some time before those destroyed countries can get back on a basis where they can feed themselves.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

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Remarks to the Members of the Youth Conference on Famine Relief.

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