St. Patrick's Day Address in New York City
03/16/1948
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There are some who foolishly say that religion is dead or dying in this country.
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 weapons of destruction have become so powerful and so terrible that we can't even think of another all-out war.
He is just talking on his suspicions. That is the usual thing in a turnover.