Harry Truman: “My fellow Americans, and free peoples all around the world:”

The course of action you recommend has my approval.

I can't see any good purpose to be served by that.

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.

I feel the Committee has done a thorough job of investigation and I wish to call your attention to these suggestions, some of which, I am sure, would be helpful.