Because the United Nations is the dynamic expression of what all the peoples of the world desire, because it sets up a standard of right and justice for all nations, it is greater than any of its members.
Address in New York City at the Cornerstone Laying of the United Nations Building.
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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.
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.
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