Harry Truman: “I hope we will have that in the future.”

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.

Members of the armed forces of the United States who are awarded the decoration established by this order are authorized to wear the medal and the ribbon symbolic of the award, as may be authorized by uniform regulations approved by the…

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

I do not. General MacArthur is in the Army, and on active duty, and if he has anything that is of use to the Defense Department, he ought to tell them so they can make use of it.