Excerpts from the Press Conference
01/16/1936
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I hereby direct the Secretary of the Navy to terminate and relinquish, on or before the fifteenth day following the date...
This year we give as well in necessity—necessity for our own.
The logic of events and our clear and pressing national interest must override our old party controversies.
The Nazi war machine has stripped them of raw materials and machine tools and trucks and locomotives.