Excerpts from the Press Conference
02/01/1943
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The Nazi war machine has stripped them of raw materials and machine tools and trucks and locomotives.
The purpose of this moratorium period is to permit the States to make necessary readjustments in their laws with respect...
The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and of danger.
As their Commander in Chief I call upon you, my fellow Americans, to oversubscribe the 1945 Red Cross War Fund.