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Harry Truman: I am just as sure as I stand here that the people behind the Iron Curtain are just as anxious for peace as I am.

On the recordOctober 12, 1950
I am just as sure as I stand here that the people behind the Iron Curtain are just as anxious for peace as I am.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

Editor's note · Context

Remarks in Pearl Harbor at the Commissioned Officers Mess.

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