The President's News Conference
04/13/1949
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Say in about 6 months.
The administration of that portion of the trust territory which includes the islands of Tinian and Saipan is hereby tran...
The course of action you recommend has my approval.
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...