Harry Truman actually said...

The United Nations elected to act now rather than to drift passively once more down the fatal trail of failure to oppose aggression which leads finally to total war.

Context

Message to the Congress Transmitting Report of U.S. Participation in the United Nations for 1950.

07/25/1951

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