Remarks to the National Citizens' Committee for United Nations Day.
09/06/1950
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The Secretary of the Navy shall award the Purple Heart, in the name of the President of the United States, to any person...
The weapons of destruction have become so powerful and so terrible that we can't even think of another all-out war.
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...
This order shall supersede Executive Order No. 9277 of December 3, 1941, entitled 'Award of the Purple Heart to Persons ...