I hope we can accomplish the purposes set forth in the message in the proposed bill that is now before the two committees in the House and the Senate, and continue to help those refugees who certainly deserve our help and support.
Remarks to Members of the Provisional Intergovernmental Committee for the Movement of Migrants from Europe.
Share
More from Harry Truman
It was suggested, and I decided that it wouldn't serve any good purpose, it would be just a piece of demagoguery; and that is what it turned out to be.
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 longer I live, the more I am impressed by the significance of our simple official oath to uphold and defend the Constitution.
Other voices in this conversation
