June
29, 1950
New
Term – “Police Action”
U.S. President Harry
S. Truman held a press conference, where the phrase "police
action" was first used to describe the Korean War.
One reporter prefaced a question with the statement, "Mr. President,
everybody is asking in this country, are we or are we not at war?" to
which Truman replied, "We are not at war." Another reporter, not
identified in the record, followed up a few minutes later with the question,
"Mr. President, would it be correct, against your explanation, to call
this a police action under the United Nations?", and Truman responded,
"Yes. That is exactly what it amounts to." One observer would note later that
"Truman was constrained to answer that way", in that he had not asked
the U.S. Congress to declare war and "did not want to validate the charge
that he had circumvented the Constitution
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