Franklin Roosevelt said...

The Nazi war machine has stripped them of raw materials and machine tools and trucks and locomotives.

Peace can endure only so long as humanity really insists upon it, and is willing to work for it- and sacrifice for it.

I hereby direct the Secretary of the Navy to terminate and relinquish, on or before the fifteenth day following the date...

That such a body would be best able to perform its nationally important tasks if created independently of the War Labor ...