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Harry Truman: All mankind now stands in the doorway to destruction--or upon the threshold of the greatest age in history.

On the recordMarch 5, 1946
All mankind now stands in the doorway to destruction--or upon the threshold of the greatest age in history.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

Editor's note · Context

Address in Columbus at a Conference of the Federal Council of Churches.

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