The President's News Conference
08/10/1949
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As far as I am concerned.
It would have involved us in all-out war in the Far East, and we have been strenuously trying to avoid that all the time...
It was suggested, and I decided that it wouldn't serve any good purpose, it would be just a piece of demagoguery; and th...
By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Uniform Code of Military Justice, Article 140 I64 Stat. 107, 145); and as...