The President's News Conference
02/25/1946
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I made a 14,400-mile trip to get a lot of misinformation.
I can't see any good purpose to be served by that.
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...