02/15/1943
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"The Government should be in a position to obtain this essential equipment and property."
"Our national defense is a public use of the highest order."
"Our Government believes that freedom from cruelty and inhuman treatment is a natural right."
"In brief, we must take the sinking of the Robin Moor as a warning to the United States not to resist the Nazi movement of world conquest."