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MAY 8-'American view on Palestine is let as many Jews in as possible'-Truman
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Harry S Truman was born MAY 8, 1884.
He was captain of a field artillery battery in France during World War I.
He was a county judge, a U.S. Senator, and Vice-President under Franklin Roosevelt.
When Roosevelt died, Truman became the 33rd U.S. President, addressing Congress, April 16, 1945:
 "Our forefathers came to our rugged shores in search of religious tolerance, political freedom and economic opportunity.
For those fundamental rights, they risked their lives.
We well know today that such rights can be preserved only by constant vigilance - the eternal price of liberty!"
Truman continued:
"At this moment, I have in my heart a prayer. As I have assumed my heavy duties, I humbly pray Almighty God, in the words of King Solomon:
'Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad; for who is able to judge this thy so great a people?'
I ask only to be a good and faithful servant of my Lord and my people."
 In Memoirs-Volume Two: Years of Trial and Hope, 1956, Harry S. Truman referred to a note he had written to an assistant:
"I surely wish God Almighty would give the Children of Israel an Isaiah, the Christians a St. Paul, and the Sons of Ishmael a peep at the Golden Rule."
Democrat President Truman commented at a Press Conference, (New York Times, August 17, 1945):
"The American view on Palestine is that we want to let as many of the Jews into Palestine as it is possible to let into that country."
 President Truman wrote to Winston Churchill, July 24, 1945:
"The drastic restrictions imposed on the Jewish immigration by the British White Paper of May, 1939, continue to provoke passionate protest from Americans most interested in Palestine and in the Jewish problem.
They fervently urge the lifting of these restrictions which deny to Jews, who have been so cruelly uprooted by ruthless Nazi persecutions, entrance into the land which represents for so many of them their only hope of survival."
President Truman told the Attorney General's Conference, February 15, 1950:
"The fundamental basis of this nation's laws was given to Moses on the Mount.
The fundamental basis of our Bill of Rights comes from the teachings we get from Exodus and St. Matthew, from Isaiah and St. Paul.
I don't think we emphasize that enough these days.
If we don't have a proper fundamental moral background, we will finally end up with a totalitarian government which does not believe in rights for anybody except the State!"
  Harry S Truman stated, April 3, 1951:
"Without a firm moral foundation, freedom degenerates quickly into selfishness and...anarchy. Then there will be freedom only for the rapacious and those who are stronger and more unscrupulous than the rank and file of the people."
 To the Federal Council of Churches, March 6, 1946, President Truman said:
"We have just come though a decade in which the forces of evil in various parts of the world have been lined up in a bitter fight to banish from the face of the earth both of these ideals - religion and democracy...
The right of every human being...to worship God in his own way, the right to fix his own relationship to his fellow men and to his Creator...have been saved for mankind.
Let us determine to carry on in a spirit of tolerance...in the spirit of God and religious unity."
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