On the recordFebruary 12, 1947
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I do not. General MacArthur is in the Army, and on active duty, and if he has anything that is of use to the Defense Department, he ought to tell them so they can make use of it.
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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