Harry Truman: “We have not been asked to mediate, and I can't make an answer to something that has not been done.”

I do not. General MacArthur is in the Army, and on active duty, and if he has anything that is of use to the Defense Department, he ought to tell them so they can make use of it.

Of course I would. I wouldn't be discourteous to anybody. I never have been.

The ultimate responsibility is mine in any event.

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.