The President's News Conference
09/25/1946
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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...
Say in about 6 months.
In this celebration let us join with the peoples of the other free nations of the world in recognition of our common pur...
This ceremony could be no more than a magnificent burial.