The President's News Conference
01/02/1952
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It was suggested, and I decided that it wouldn't serve any good purpose, it would be just a piece of demagoguery; and th...
Of course I would. I wouldn't be discourteous to anybody. I never have been.
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...
Say in about 6 months.