We think it will be shortly afterwards, but it seems a terrible thing to gamble with such big stakes in diplomacy without having your master card in your hand.

Quote by Henry L Stimson

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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...

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...

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...

I think it is very important that I should have a talk with you as...

I think it is very important that I should have a talk with you as...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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.

The only deadly sin I know is cynicism.

The only deadly sin I know is cynicism.

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...

Gentlemen don't read each other's mail.

Gentlemen don't read each other's mail.

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...

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...

As to the war with Japan, the President had already received my memorandum in general...

As to the war with Japan, the President had already received my memorandum in general...

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...