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cisive campaign with its terrible and constant attrition upon our forces if the enemy utilized its full military potential. i have constantly called for the new political decisions essential to a solution.

efforts have been made to distort my position. it has been said, in effect, that i was a warmonger. nothing could be further from the truth. i know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. i have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes. indeed, on the second day of september, nineteen hundred and forty-five, just following the surrender of the japanese nation on the battleship missouri, i formally cautioned as follows:

                "men since the beginning of time have
                sought peace. various methods through the
                ages have been attempted to devise an
                international process to prevent or settle
                disputes between nations. from the very
                start workable methods were found in so
                far as individual citizens were concerned,
                but the mechanics of an instrumentality of
                larger international scope have never
                been successful. military alliances,
                balances of power, leagues of nations,
              &

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