Excerpts from the Press Conference
05/12/1937
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Our problem of national defense has become one of helping to defend the entire Western Hemisphere.
We have seen the American motion picture become foremost in all the world.
An all-important factor in hemispheric defense, in defense of democracies today, is the Lend-Lease Bill.
The Americas stand forth today as a notable example of international solidarity in a world in which freedom and human liberty are threatened...