Harry Truman: “We are trying to work out a policy and a plan for its disposal.”

The experience of this early period of public action showed that constant vigilance and competent professional guidance are essential to prevent irreparable losses.

Members of the armed forces of the United States who are awarded the decoration established by this order are authorized to wear the medal and the ribbon symbolic of the award, as may be authorized by uniform regulations approved by the…

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.

That is his duty. That is his duty.