Excerpts from the Press Conference
07/22/1943
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Our national defense is a public use of the highest order.
The Government has always paid and always will pay a fair compensation.
The Government should be in a position to obtain this essential equipment and property.
We must take it that notice has now been served upon us that no American ship or cargo on any of the seven seas can consider itself immune f...