Excerpts from the Press Conference
05/16/1940
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Trade is fundamental to the prosperity of Nations, as it is of individuals.
The Nazi war machine has stripped them of raw materials and machine tools and trucks and locomotives.
We shall be equipped to deal with the great overriding question of security, and with the crucial questions of money and...
That such study should be conducted by a specially appointed commission charged with the duty of examining into the expe...