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7 Ceneral MacArthur," don't exactly of nwont 916 doidy to sive your, question is. Bul he happens tope 320 bits aldon $ at fism I would regard him and help him and due proportion, just as we do to our other friends and allies. That depends largely upon our own interests, upon our 19W 193 own potentialities, upon the general alignments and policies 300 that exist at the time. S I'would not attempt to answer such hypothetical questions lo QUOTS clip jogrdua s8, noy make seer of a prophet X A HUNI 2011 IN worl Senator Thatti the your very eloquent statement a little earlier, today about 11 abolishing war. I wondered if, feeling so strongly as 10 about abolishing war, if you hadn't considered what causes and how you go about abolishing it. asob tI Do you think some edict will abolish it? I would be very Verg interested in how to abolish it, and that is why I askeduthe question. General MacArthur. Senator, I wouldn't attempt to burden the record with any voluminous answer to that question bl Senator Fulbright. Finally, what I was leading up to you feel that the approach that this Government has takeit TRUMAN beginning I would say in 1943 with action by the Cougress "NATIONAL directed toward abolishing it, is in the right direction) or not? Yeffh fi APCHIVES AND General MacArthur. Sir? sdW I RECORDS * ADMIN.' 16 Senator Fulbright. In the right direction. Are we pursuing Es it futile policy in our effort to abolish war? I consider every. thing we have done under the United Nations as of yated by the purpose of abolishing war. Is that a wrong, N od futile, and naïve approach, or is it not? General MacArthur. I think every effort that is 9019. abolish war or the causes of war, which are well known JOV 9V12 to ayery rational, reasonable man, is a noble and proper purpose, blrow Senator Fulbright. General, that is not responsive to my question. I asked you: Is the effort we have made- tedT General MacArthur. I haven't any idea of trying to answer fog nwo directly your question. I don't think it falls within the "cope IXS of my knowledge or that I am qualified to discuss yow such a subject before this distinguished group. I. Senator Fulbright. You mean you don't feel qualified to say whether or not the United Nations and what we have done in that direction is a step toward the abolition of War. in your opinion? You don't feel qualified to make any rigo smil about that? 6 General MacArthur. I have only the barest E what has transpired in the United Nations. I have never been worl connected directly with their sessions. * + Preservation Copy

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