Harry Truman: “I don't think it will be shelved without consultation with me.”

By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Uniform Code of Military Justice, Article 140 I64 Stat. 107, 145); and as Commander in Chief of the armed forces of the United States, I hereby delegate to the Secretary of Defense the…

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.

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.