FDR: “It is ordered that the Foreign Service Regulations of the United States be, and they are hereby, amended by prescribing…”

It seems obvious that we will be more or less responsible for security in all the Pacific waters.

I do know it will come, and I do know that tonight there are over seven and a half million Americans overseas or fighting afloat in this great war.

The work, my friends, is peace.

That the President appoint a commission for these purposes.