Harry Truman: “Yes, that has already been approved, and will go down just as soon as the State Department is ready to send it down.”

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.

The course of action you recommend has my approval.

I made a 14,400-mile trip to get a lot of misinformation.

It was suggested, and I decided that it wouldn't serve any good purpose, it would be just a piece of demagoguery; and that is what it turned out to be.