Harry Truman: “That is one of them.”

The people of the United States have a very great asset in this force.

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.

I enjoin upon all officers of the United States charged with the execution of the laws thereof the utmost diligence in preventing violations of section 215 of the Immigration and Nationality Act and this proclamation, including the…

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.