Harry Truman: “The protection of civil rights is the duty of every government which derives its powers from the consent of the people.”

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That is his duty. That is his duty.

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.

I can't see any good purpose to be served by that.