Excerpts from the Press Conference
04/12/1937
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I have determined that it is necessary in the interest of the national defense that on and after August 27, 1941, the following-described ar...
It is perfectly fair to say that all stories of that kind are vicious rumors.
We have in the Government an enormous number of papers.
Denial does not make any difference one way or the other.