The President's News Conference
10/03/1951
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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 feel it is necessary for me to exercise the final authority in the coal case.
I can't see any good purpose to be served by that.
The administration of that portion of the trust territory which includes the islands of Tinian and Saipan is hereby tran...