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President Harry S. Truman's remarks to the President's Conference on Community Responsibility to Our Peacetime Servicemen and Women. The President spoke at 10 p.m. at the opening session of the Conference held at the Washington Hotel in Washington. The Conference was called by the President's Committee on Religion and Welfare in the Armed Forces, and was held in Washington on May 25 and 26. The President's opening words referred to Frank L. Weil, chairman of the Committee and the meeting, Dorothy Enderis, Truman Gibson, Dr. Lindsley F. Kimball, Mark A. McCloskey, Basil O'Connor, Dr. Daniel A. Poling, Mrs. Ferdinand Powell, Sr., and the Rev. Edmund A. Walsh, members of the Committee.