FDR: “It strengthens the Commissioned Corps of the Public Health Service for the enormous tasks of the war and the peace to…”

The work, my friends, is peace.

Possession of any mine or mines taken under this order shall be terminated by the Secretary of the Interior as soon as he determines that such possession is no longer required for the successful prosecution of the war.

We must go on to do all in our power to conquer the doubts and the fears, the ignorance and the greed, which made this horror possible.

That such study should be conducted by a specially appointed commission charged with the duty of examining into the experience which industry and labor have thus far had with these plans, and of reporting the facts for the benefit of the…