FDR: “This is a consolidation for swifter and more efficient prosecution of the war.”

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

It is not really of any great importance.

The Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed to take possession of any and all such mines.

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.