Now, Therefore, by virtue of the authority so vested in me as President, the following regulations are hereby prescribed:
By virtue of the authority vested in me by Title I of the First War Powers Act, 1941 (55 Stat. 838), and as President of the United States, ...
We promised to return; we have returned.
We are glad to be back in the Philippines but we do not intend to stop there.
Our decency was mistaken for weakness.
We have the will and the power to teach her the cost of treachery and deceit.
The suffering, humiliation, and mental torture that you have endured since the barbarous, unprovoked, and treacherous attack upon the Philip...
The whole American Nation today exults at the news that the gallant men under your command have landed on Philippine soil.
We have learned our lesson about Japan.
The United States promised to help build a new Nation in the Pacific, a Nation whose ideals, like our own, were liberty and equality and the...
You have the Nation's gratitude and the Nation's prayers for success as you and your men fight your way back to Bataan.
Nowhere has the desire to avenge their comrades been stronger than among the forces of the Southwest Pacific.
There never was a doubt that the people of the Philippines were worthy of their independence.
We and our Philippine brothers in arms- with the help of Almighty God- will drive out the invader; we will destroy his power to wage war aga...
The country has followed with pride the magnificent sweep of your Fleet into enemy waters.
Until we were attacked at Pearl Harbor we had done our utmost to live as friendly self-respecting neighbors of the Japanese in the Pacific.
When the Japanese invaders have been driven out, the Philippines will take their place as a free and independent member of the family of Nat...
I hereby authorize and direct the Secretary of War to designate the Commanding General, United States Army Forces, Pacific Ocean Areas, as t...
