The President's News Conference on the Railway Labor Negotiations
05/17/1946
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This ceremony could be no more than a magnificent burial.
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...
This case presents a unique situation.
We know that large reserves of generating capacity are vital to economic health and to national security.