The President's News Conference
04/23/1947
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I believe that the report is of great value.
My decision should not be interpreted as establishing any new pattern or policy.
They should be strong enough to see that unified multiple-purpose development is planned for, and works operated harmoni...
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...