Excerpts from the Press Conference
09/30/1942
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I call upon the millions of victory gardeners who have done so much to swell the Nation's food supply in these war years...
Peace can endure only so long as humanity really insists upon it, and is willing to work for it- and sacrifice for it.
The Nazi war machine has stripped them of raw materials and machine tools and trucks and locomotives.
Whereas by Executive Order No. 9452 of June 26, 1944, as amended by Executive Order No. 9514 of January 18, 1945, the Se...