Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

I believe it entirely consistent with our continuing readiness to limit armaments by agreement, that we maintain an efficient Navy adequate ...

War will be avoided by all honorable means, but should it come, I feel assured that the efficiency and devotion to duty of officers and men ...

The work of upbuilding the Navy must be steadily continued.

It is not intended by this order to give any publicly-owned lands a national-forest status which have not hitherto had such status, or to re...