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Harry Truman: “The issue in Korea is the survival of the principles on which we have built our countries.”

On the recordMarch 25, 1951
The issue in Korea is the survival of the principles on which we have built our countries.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

Editor's note · Context

Address Opening the Meeting of the Foreign Ministers of the American Republics.

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