Harry Truman: “We think it essential for the furtherance of our common purposes that an Allied Middle East Command should be set up as…”

The same reasons which keep other workers from wishing to become coal miners also keep them from expecting---or their employers from offering--wage increases to match every increase the miner receives.

We have learned that the mark of a well-managed land lies in the care a Nation gives to its rivers.

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 Department, he ought to tell them so they can make use of it.

I feel the Committee has done a thorough job of investigation and I wish to call your attention to these suggestions, some of which, I am sure, would be helpful.