The President's News Conference
09/04/1946
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As far as I am concerned.
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...
It's a little too soon to tell you that.
We are grateful for the privileges and rights inherent in our way of life, and in particular for the basic freedoms, whi...