The period of eligibility of those candidates for appointment as Foreign Service officers whose names were on the eligible list on March 20, 1934, is hereby extended one year and a half from the date on which their eligibility for…

It is, of course, clear to me that it is reasonable that some provision for appeal should be a part of Government policy.

Let us who treasure their memories not fall short of the measure of their deeds.

People want decent homes to live in; they want to locate them where they can engage in productive work; and they want some safeguard against misfortunes which cannot be wholly eliminated in this man-made world of ours.

These recommendations represent our best judgment as to the steps which ought to be taken immediately toward the realization of what you termed in your recent message to the Congress 'the ambition of the individual to obtain for him and…

Our task of reconstruction does not require the creation of new and strange values.

Our early forbears brought from the Netherlands a quality of endurance against great odds—a quality of quiet determination to conquer obstacles of nature and obstacles of man.

I place the security of the men, women, and children of the Nation first.

The establishment of sound means toward a greater future economic security of the American people is dictated by a prudent consideration of the hazards involved in our national life.

This plan for economic security is at once a measure of prevention and a method of alleviation.

I feel a just pride in what the Society has stood for as the exponent and recorder of the great contribution made, through three hundred years, by men and women of Netherland descent in the building of the United States.

We cannot afford to neglect the plain duty before us.

It is overwhelmingly important to avoid any danger of permanently discrediting the sound and necessary policy of Federal legislation for economic security by attempting to apply it on too ambitious a scale before actual experience has…

We honor those men and women of early days who made so much out of such small beginnings.

The United States has an opportunity once more to throw its weight into the scale in favor of peace.

The sovereignty of the United States will be in no way diminished or jeopardized by such action.

I hope that at an early date the Senate will advise and consent to the adherence by the United States to the Protocol of Signature of the Statute of the Permanent Court of International Justice.

The movement to make international justice practicable and serviceable is not subject to partisan considerations.