U.S. MUST NOT LET HER STRENGTH DWINDLE, SAYS TRUMAN

Chronicle (Levin), 19 March 1948, Page 5

U.S. MUST NOT LET HER STRENGTH DWINDLE, SAYS TRUMAN

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Received Thursday, 8.50 p.m. ' . NEW YORK, Mareh 17. "We will have to take risks during the eoming year — risks perhaps greater than .any this country has been called on to assume," said President Truman iri an address tonight to the Society of Friendly Sons of St. Patrick. "The risks are not oi' our own making atid \ve eanjiot make the danger vanish hy pretending it does not exist. We niust be prepared to meet that " . danger with sobcr self-restrajnt and cairn judicious aetion if we \ . are to be ^successi'ul in our leadership for peaee." JV|r. Truman elaborated on his speech earlier today to Congress. Ile said his reeonimendations have one i'undamental purpose. That purpose is to prevent war. "1 know ev-eiy loyal Ameriean desires lasting peaee based on i'reedom and justice t'or all men." Rei'erring to the mareh of C1ommunism, President Truman said: "Free men in every land are 'asking: 'Where is thjs leadingf' J ean bring you tonight no sjniple or easy .ansvver, but I ean express my firm eonvietion that at .this mornent in history the l'aith and strength oi the thiited States are mighty iorees for the prevent ion oi war and the establishment oi peace. Our l'aith and strength must be made unmistakeablv clear to the Avorld. " Disenssing the Fnited States' part in the modern world, ihe President said: "The. swit't movement oi events has made our new role plainly evident. We must not l'all vietim to insidious propaganda that peace ean be obtained solely by wanting- peaee. This theory is advanced in -the hope that it will deeeive our people and that we will then permit our strenglh to dwiinlle beeause oi a false belief that all is well in the world. We must not be confused about the issue eonfronting the world. It is as old as recorded history. It is tyranny versus 1'reedom."