Harry Truman: “The major purpose of the two governments in regard to civil air transport has now been set forth in writing”

The Constitution is a living force--it is a growing thing.

The course of action you recommend has my approval.

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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.