FDR: “We are already helping the Italian people in Sicily.”

As their Commander in Chief I call upon you, my fellow Americans, to oversubscribe the 1945 Red Cross War Fund.

All sections of our population—labor, farmers, businessmen have shared and will share in the benefits which increased trade brings.

It seems obvious that we will be more or less responsible for security in all the Pacific waters.

By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the statutes of the United States, it is hereby ordered as follows: