Government

This is not complete, immediate national mobilization.

The average American as I have met him on these voyages is no longer indifferent to the problems of Government.

It does not seem possible to complete this work in time for its use at the present session of the Congress.

Such an order is being issued today.

I deem it of equal importance to take other and simultaneous steps without waiting for a later meeting of the Congress.

Three or four weeks—that is, start getting them to work.

That we look approvingly upon the President's plan for better land utilization.

Executive Order No. 4610, approved March 10, 1927, as amended by Executive Order No. 4833, March 19, 1928, and by Executive Order No. 5001, November 23, 1928, is revoked effective July 1, 1932.

I do so with the deepest regret because of the distinguished service you have rendered and the fine place you have been able to make for yourself in the Diplomatic Service.

There is another phase of the bill as passed which is disheartening.

The details of this estimate, the necessity therefor, and the reason for its transmission at this time are set forth in the letter of the Director of the Bureau of the Budget transmitted herewith, with whose comments and observations…

I am glad to see the adoption by both the Senate and the House of the principle of generous relief to unemployment.

This order shall be effective from July 1, 1932.

Provided further, That the charge for the issue of an original passport shall be $9.

That the validity of a passport . . . shall be limited to a period of two years.

Passports may be amended in the United States by the Department of State or any of the passport agents of the Department of State

These policies and measures will hold our hard-won American system of ordered liberty and government.

Section 598 of the Consular Regulations of 1896 is hereby canceled.