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Harry Truman: I felt, when we had adopted that document, and when hostilities had ceased, that we would arrive at that peace for which…

On the recordJuly 18, 1949
I felt, when we had adopted that document, and when hostilities had ceased, that we would arrive at that peace for which we all had prayed since 1941.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

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Remarks in Chicago at the Shriners Diamond Jubilee Banquet.

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