The President's News Conference
10/18/1950
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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...
Of course I would. I wouldn't be discourteous to anybody. I never have been.
It's a little too soon to tell you that.
I can't see any good purpose to be served by that.