The President's News Conference
09/04/1946
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They should be strong enough to see that unified multiple-purpose development is planned for, and works operated harmoni...
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 Dep...
I hereby direct all departments and agencies of the Government to cooperate with the Secretary of State in the execution...
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...