I hereby establish an inter-agency committee, with you or your nominee as chairman, with representatives from the Department of State, Treasury, Commerce, Interior, Labor, the Federal Security Agency, and the Bureau of the Budget.
Letter to Secretary Anderson Concerning the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
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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.
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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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