Only immediate assertion of leadership by the United States could prevent war in the next decade...The President and the Secretary of State must shoc… - Dean Acheson

The qualities which produce the dogged, unbeatable courage of the British, personified at the time by Winston Churchill, can appear in other settings as stubbornness bordering on stupidity.

How could the USA champion individual freedom in the world generally while denying it to an important minority in its own country.

I did not share President's view on the Palestine solution...The number that could be absorbed by Arab Palestine without creating a grave political problem would be inadequate, and to transform the country into a Jewish state capable of receiving a million or more immigrants would vastly exacerbate the political problem and imperil not only American but all Western influence in the Near East.