Harry Truman: “The accomplishment of this objective is one of the most important tasks with which we are confronted.”

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.

I can't see any good purpose to be served by that.

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The course of action you recommend has my approval.