Harry Truman: “I am glad to learn that the situation is now under control and that the insular authorities have taken all necessary…”

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.

The experience of this early period of public action showed that constant vigilance and competent professional guidance are essential to prevent irreparable losses.

This ceremony could be no more than a magnificent burial.

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.