The President's News Conference
06/12/1945
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The administration of that portion of the trust territory which includes the islands of Tinian and Saipan is hereby tran...
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 am concerned that the program outlined above be initiated at the earliest practicable date.
NOW, THEREFORE, by virtue of the authority vested in me by section 91 of the act of April 30, 1900, 31 Stat. 159, as ame...