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Harry Truman: If we make this peace what these young men who died believed it would be, they will not have died in vain.

On the recordJune 4, 1948
If we make this peace what these young men who died believed it would be, they will not have died in vain.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

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Informal Remarks in Nebraska

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