 President Harry S. Truman's administration had little incentive to pursue annexation.With respect to foreign policy, such a territorial ambition would have only served to antagonize two key allies.With respect to domestic policy, the administration would not likely have been able to convince Congress to offer statehood to Newfoundland due to its small population and geographical isolation from the then-48 existing states, and would not likely have been able to convince Newfoundlanders to accept territorial status as an alternative to admission as a U.S. state.