Truman Dedicates Fordham Victory Bell
Truman Dedicates Fordham Victory Bell
Truman Dedicates Fordham Victory Bell President Harry S. Truman dedicates the Fordham University's new victory bell. MS Harry Truman, wearing graduation cap & gown, walking with Father Gannon, then ringing bell. LS crowd gathered in campus quad. TLS Mr. Truman receiving honorary degree of Doctor of Law, Francis Cardinal Spellman & Cardinal Bernard Griffin watching. MS President Truman speaking: "Ignorance and his handmaidens, prejudice, intolerance, suspicion of our fellow men, breed dictators. And they breed war. Civilization cannot survive an atomic war. Nothing would be left but a world reduced to rubble. Gone would be man's hopes for decency. Gone would be our hope for the greatest age in mankind, an age which you and I know can harness atomic energy for the welfare of man and not for his destruction. And so we must look to education in the long run to wipe out ignorance which threatens catastrophe. Intelligent men do not hate other men just b/c their religion may be different or b/c their habits & language may be different or b/c their national origin or color may be different. It is up to education to bring about that deeper international understanding which is so vital to world peace."