Harry Truman: “I shall not do that.”

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

The ultimate responsibility is mine in any event.

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.