As to the war with Japan, the President had already received my memorandum in general as to the possibility of getting a substantial unconditional surrender from Japan which I had written before leaving Washington and which he had approved.

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Now the thing is not to get into unnecessary quarrels by talking too much and...

Now the thing is not to get into unnecessary quarrels by talking too much and...

After I had gone through this matter with the President I told him of my...

After I had gone through this matter with the President I told him of my...

We debated long over the situation for it is a very difficult question and all...

We debated long over the situation for it is a very difficult question and all...

I do not see how the Japanese can hold out against this united front.

I do not see how the Japanese can hold out against this united front.

We think it will be shortly afterwards, but it seems a terrible thing to gamble...

We think it will be shortly afterwards, but it seems a terrible thing to gamble...

We had news this morning of another successful atomic bomb being dropped on Nagasaki. These...

We had news this morning of another successful atomic bomb being dropped on Nagasaki. These...

The only deadly sin I know is cynicism.

The only deadly sin I know is cynicism.

The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way...

The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way...

But I think the bomb instead constitutes merely a first step in a new control...

But I think the bomb instead constitutes merely a first step in a new control...

It seems as if everybody in the country was getting impatient to get his or...

It seems as if everybody in the country was getting impatient to get his or...

The Japanese campaign involves therefore two great uncertainties; first, whether Russia will come in though...

The Japanese campaign involves therefore two great uncertainties; first, whether Russia will come in though...

Over any such tangled wave of problems the S-1 secret would be dominant and yet...

Over any such tangled wave of problems the S-1 secret would be dominant and yet...

The bomb and the entrance of the Russians into the war will certainly have an...

The bomb and the entrance of the Russians into the war will certainly have an...

The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

I told him that my own opinion was that the time now and the method...

I told him that my own opinion was that the time now and the method...

Gentlemen don't read each other's mail.

Gentlemen don't read each other's mail.

The President so far has struck me as a man who is trying hard to...

The President so far has struck me as a man who is trying hard to...

Russia will occupy most of the good food lands of central Europe while we have...

Russia will occupy most of the good food lands of central Europe while we have...

I told him there was one city that they must not bomb without my permission...

I told him there was one city that they must not bomb without my permission...

There has been growing quite a strain of irritating feeling between our government and the...

There has been growing quite a strain of irritating feeling between our government and the...