Letter on Self-Government for Puerto Rico
08/28/1944
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It is good to be home.
It is fruitless to try to place the blame for this situation on one particular Nation or on another.
The Nazi war machine has stripped them of raw materials and machine tools and trucks and locomotives.
With God's help we will complete the fulfillment of the pledge we renewed when our men returned to Leyte.