04/20/1949
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"It is necessary, after our conference with General MacArthur on the situation in Korea and Japan, for me to immediately return to San Francisco and tell the world what our policy is as it affects the ..."
"There are men in the Congress who do not yet realize that we are an international nation now, and not just a Republic bounded on the east by the Atlantic and on the west by the Pacific."
"They are both key positions in the national defense of the United States on its western borders."
"I am not one of those who thinks that another world war is inevitable."