The President's News Conference
07/16/1947
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I am appreciative of the privilege that General Smith has offered me, to come over here and make a few remarks to this o...
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...
As far as I am concerned.
It was suggested, and I decided that it wouldn't serve any good purpose, it would be just a piece of demagoguery; and th...