The President's News Conference
10/17/1951
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By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Uniform Code of Military Justice, Article 140 I64 Stat. 107, 145); and as...
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 can't see any good purpose to be served by that.
NOW, THEREFORE, by virtue of the authority vested in me by section 91 of the act of April 30, 1900, 31 Stat. 159, as ame...