Statement on Argentina
09/28/1944
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We should make no distinction between city and country residents as to their participation in the total war effort.
There is established in the Office for Emergency Management of the Executive Office of the President an Office of Economic Stabilization.
This Government is determined to use all of its powers to prevent any avoidable rise in the cost of living.
Therefore, our rural population equally deserves to have its rents stabilized.