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Harry Truman: “The kind of peace we seek cannot be won at a single stroke or by a single nation.”

On the recordJuly 18, 1949
The kind of peace we seek cannot be won at a single stroke or by a single nation.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

Editor's note · Context

Address in Chicago Before the Imperial Council Session of the Shrine of North America.

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