A lot of them write to me.

The American people want to know, and will be told, the general trend of how the war is going.

I have stated all this in three different messages.

I have been in communication with several Governors and with other public authorities.

I will give you a shorthand note on this.

Informal conversations on problems of the future always lead to better understanding.

I am transmitting their report immediately.

It is a matter of deep gratification that every increase in the facilities of communication between our countries draws them nearer together, fostering the growth of cultural and commercial relations between them and further strengthening their mutual friendship.

The message that I particularly wish to send to Your Excellency and to the people of Mexico today is the fervent hope that the means which are used in transmitting my message will be a great instrument of understanding and never one of misunderstanding.

I have nothing for public statement.

Each increase in the facilities for communication between our countries brings ever more to our peoples the realization of being brought closer together and so overcomes more and more the barriers of geographical distance and fosters that interchange of ideas and commerce between us which makes the relationship of Governments and peoples mutually beneficial.

TODAY DIRECT radio service is being inaugurated between China and the United States.

This added development in the means of communication between countries which are as widely separated as ours will, I trust, serve to bring them closer together in the minds and thoughts of our peoples.

Well, I have one question today, and I am not quite in a position to make an adequate reply to it, so this is a famine day, I am sorry to say.

I have nothing on my mind, and apparently you have nothing on yours very much.

A press conference is a conference that works both ways.

I thought that it would be very much easier for them to understand us, and for us to understand them, if they had a good working knowledge of the English language.

I did understand that it was the rule that if a question were submitted to me and was not discussed by me that no report was to be made, one way or the other, about the fact of the submission of the question.