We announced on December 10, 1945 plans to terminate two of the combined supply boards but stated that the food shortages continued to be such that the Combined Food Board could not then be dissolved.
Joint Statement With the Prime Ministers of Great Britain and Canada Concerning the Combined Food Board.
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It was suggested, and I decided that it wouldn't serve any good purpose, it would be just a piece of demagoguery; and that is what it turned out to be.
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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