Harry Truman: “A large need continues for public and private help.”

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.

That is his duty. That is his duty.

No, there's no reason for me to see him.

I do not. General MacArthur is in the Army, and on active duty, and if he has anything that is of use to the Defense Department, he ought to tell them so they can make use of it.