We debated long over the situation for it is a very difficult question and all of us recognize its difficulty.

A private meeting with Hoover is like sitting in a both of ink.

Now the thing is not to get into unnecessary quarrels by talking too much and not to indicate any weakness by talking too much; let our actions speak for themselves.

But I think the bomb instead constitutes merely a first step in a new control by man over the forces of nature too revolutionary and dangerous to fit into old concepts.

Honor begets honor; trust begets trust; faith begets faith; and hope is the mainspring of life.

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.

History is often not what actually happened but what is recorded as such.