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On the recordJune 30, 1947
Their assignments were as bloody and difficult as any in which our American soldiers engaged.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

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Letter to the President of the Senate and to the Speaker of the House Transmitting Bill Providing Benefits to Philippine...

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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.

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