Excerpts from the Press Conference
12/05/1938
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Our participation in the Food and Agriculture Organization will be an essential step in this collaboration.
By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the statutes of the United States, it is hereby ordered ...
I wish I had the power, just for this evening, to be present at all of these gatherings.
We can be proud of all that the Red Cross has meant to them.