Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

The United States promised to help build a new Nation in the Pacific, a Nation whose ideals, like our own, were liberty and equality and the...

The country has followed with pride the magnificent sweep of your Fleet into enemy waters.

Until we were attacked at Pearl Harbor we had done our utmost to live as friendly self-respecting neighbors of the Japanese in the Pacific.

When the Japanese invaders have been driven out, the Philippines will take their place as a free and independent member of the family of Nat...