European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 18, 1953, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes january 1953 partial text of Truman Farewell speech to nation 17 condensed text of president tru mans Farewell speech to the Tion i am Happy to have this Opportunity to talk to you once More before i leave the White next general Eisen Hower will be inaugurated As presi Dent of the United a Short tone after the new president takes his oath of i will be on the train going Back Home Poinde i will once again be a private citizen of this that is As it should in speaking to you i have no new revelations to political policy there Are simply a few things in my heart i want to say to i want to say goodbye and thanks for your since i became i have been to puerto Rico and the Virgin Island and have visited almost every state in the i have travelled Miles by by and by circumstances different your new president is taking of fice in quite different circumstances than when i became president eight years things were in those the san Francisco conference to organize the United nations had been called for april i was asked if that meeting would go i announced that it on May Germany surren Churchill called me shortly after that and wanted a meeting me and prime minister Lin of later a meeting was agreed and and i met at Potsdam in the War against Japan was still course believed set for winning of cold War going 1 made the decision that the atomic bomb had to be used to end i made that Deci Sion in the conviction it would save hundreds thousands of lives7japanese As Well As Amer All these things happened within just a Over four from april to August i Tell you this to illustrate the tremendous scope of the work your presi Dent has to i want All of you to realize How big a How hard a Job it not for my because i am stepping out of for the Sake of my presi Dent is president of the whole we must All give him our support As citizens of the United he will have and i want you to give him the cold War that history will re member my term in office As the years the cold War began to overshadow our i have had hardly a Day in office that has not been dominated by this All embracing conflict Between those who love Freedom and those who would Lead the world Back into slavery and dark but when history says that my term of office saw the beginning of cold it will also say that in those eight years we have set the course that can win we have succeeded in carving out policies to attain policies of world Leader policies that express Faith in other free we have averted world War up to now and we May already have succeeded in establishing conditions which can keep that War from happening As far ahead As Man can i think of the difference Between our course now and our course 30 years ago after the first world War we withdrew from world affairs this we avoided those mis we helped to found and to sustain the United we have gone ahead with other free countries to build their economies and link us All together in a healthy world think Back for a moment to the 1930s and you will see the the japanese moved in to and free men did not the fascists moved into ethic and we did not the nazis marched into into into and free men were paralysed for Lack of strength an Unity and will years of indecision think about those years of weakness and and world War ii which was their evil then think about the Speed and courage and decisiveness with which we have moved against the communist threat since world War in the first crisis came in 1945 and when the soviet Union re fused to Honor its agreement to remove its from Mem Bers of my Cabinet came to me and asked if we were ready to take the risk that a firm stand in i replied that we and the soviet troops were with and in Early the soviet Union threatened Greece and then came the Marshall plan which saved the heroic Berlin Airlift and our military we inaugurated the North at lactic the Rio pact bind ing the Western hemisphere to and the defense pacts with countries of the far most important of we acted in i was in in june when Secretary president foresees change in soviet system Acheson telephoned me and gave me the news about the invasion of turned the problem Over in my mind in Many but my thoughts kept coming Back to the u s t r i and finally to Here was history repeating Here was another probing another testing if we let the Republic of Korea go other country would be and then it was not easy to make the decision that sent american boys again into i was a Soldier in the first world and i know what a Soldier goes through we realized that the Issue was whether there would be fighting in a limited area now or in a much larger scale later or there would be some casualties now or Many More casualties decision reached so a decision was decision i believe was the most important in my time As in the Days that the most heartening fact was the a t american people clearly agreed with the and in our know they Are fight ing in the same cause of Freedom in which americans have stood Ever since the beginning of t h e where free men had failed the test this time we met the As i have thought about our worldwide struggle with the communists these past eight i have never once doubted that the people of our have the will to do what is Nec Essary to win this terrible fight against communism that same Assurance of our will slip quietly capital 17 accompanied by his one Secretary and two freight car loads of Harry Truman will leave Here tuesday night for retirement at while upwards of a million people in this City Parade cheer or dance to celebrate the inauguration of Dwight Eisen Hower As the new president of the Truman will slip quietly away to the sem Rural life of relaxation which he deliberately just after dark he will Board a train for a 25hour trip to the Prairie town from which he slowly climbed the political ladder to a Pinnacle of responsibility in the free in contrast to the jubilation around the Truman departure will seem and for several million citizens who supported the political party he once it will be a sad for the Truman themselves it apparently will be a really Happy ending to their decades of Public Truman has let friends know that she is supremely glad the Long Era of being in a goldfish bowl of publicity is the retiring president has told friends that he has longed for an of 17hour work Days and decisions affecting millions of he plans to organize the Docu ments from his White House years into a to and per haps later take a place As a guide or elder statesman influencing Public policy the Truman will leave the White House officially about 15 minutes before noon at that president elect Dwight Eisenhower will c o 01 e to the executive mansion in an open will leave for Home at Independence As greets new president automobile to pick up tru Man so they May together through a Public throng to the Steps of the Capitol where Eisen Hower will take the oath of of fice As Truman stands by Truman prob ably will follow in another term ends at noon Truman term will end officially at noon that regard less of the moment at which Eisenhower takes the from the ceremony on the the Truman will drive to a they will wait there until about pm when they will drive to the Railroad station to leave the they will have no part in the giant Parade and review Over which Eisenhower will preside to celebrate his inauguration and the return to Power of the Republican party after 20 members of Truman Cabi net and their some other officials of his administration and democratic party functionaries and friends Are expected to visit the Truman at their hotel to say Farewell and keep them company during the wait several particularly close officials and friends Are expected to accompany them to the Railroad 10 truckloads of documents the Truman Are expected to occupy Only a Small private Section in an Ordinary sleeping car for the Truman per Sonal miss Rose con also will make the Only personal baggage in trunks and suitcases will be taken on this As the Bulky material is ing moved separately to Independence by army trailer truck rather than by officials said about 10 truckloads had been which would be equivalent in volume to two full rail Road freight this volume of memoirs and souvenirs consists mostly of filing cabinets full of documents which the president wants to preserve in the Truman Library at Grandview near his it also includes the Many books he has accumulated while in office and packing cases full of such As wooden symbols of the demo cratic pictures and Orna ments which admirers have Given aside from clothes and the Truman have very Little personal property to take away from the White h the Only Large pieces of furniture Are two pianos which the president and his professional Singer Margaret brought into the executive Man these have been shipped Margaret is continuing her musical career in new York the White House with the new decorations and Balcony which Truman will remain Little disturbed by the de parture of the Truman draperies and most of the other household equip ment Are the property of the a the new president and his wife will be eating dinner in the White prepared by the same Cooks and served on the same dishes the Truman when the express Dent and his wife Are rolling to their Western thus democracy changes Peoples determination will be general Eisenhower greatest source of strength in carrying on this once in a i get a letter from some impatient per son Why ont we get it Lover with Why dont fallout drop the a t o i c bomb for most the answer is quite simple we Are not made that we Are a moral peace is our and Justice and we can not of our own free violate the very principles that we Are striving to de the whole purpose of what we Are doing is to prevent world War starting a War is no Way to make eighth year of atomic age but if anyone still thinks that just this bad Means can bring Good then let me re mind you of this we Are living in the eighth year of the atomic we Are not the Only nation that is learning to unleash the Power of the a third War might dig the grave not Only of our communist opponents but also of our own our world As Well As starting an atomic War is totally unthinkable for rational some of you May when and How will the cold War Ever end i think i can answer that the communist world has great and it looks but thera is a fatal flaw in their so theirs is a godless a system of there is no Freedom in no the Iron the secret the constant All these Are symptoms of a great Basic the rulers fear of their own in the Long the strength of our free and our will prevail Over a system that has respect for neither god nor Man forecast change As the free world grows More More attractive to men on both sides of the Iron cur As the soviet Hopes for easy expansion Are there will have to come a time of change in the soviet nobody can say for sure when that is going to or exactly How it will come whether or trouble in the Satel Lite or by a change inside the whether the communist rulers shift their policies of their own free or whether the change comes about in some other i have not a doubt in the world that a change will i have a deep and abiding Faith in the destiny of free with patience and we shall some Day move on into a new a wonderful Golden age when we can use the peaceful tools that science has forged for us to do away with poverty and human misery everywhere on think what can be done once our our our science of All atomic on Page 1 a recent photograph of president Truman and his press photo