FDR: “When a great danger threatens our basic security it is my duty to advise the Congress of the way to preserve it.”

We can be proud of all that the Red Cross has meant to them.

The work, my friends, is peace.

As their Commander in Chief I call upon you, my fellow Americans, to oversubscribe the 1945 Red Cross War Fund.

The Federal Loan Administrator and the War Food Administrator are hereby designated as additional members of the Economic Stabilization Board.