The President's News Conference
01/22/1947
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I wouldn't take any, now. It's a little late.
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 am appreciative of the privilege that General Smith has offered me, to come over here and make a few remarks to this o...
The weapons of destruction have become so powerful and so terrible that we can't even think of another all-out war.