FDR: “It is, after all, only the peopling of the wilderness which gives permanency to the form of an ordered society.”

It is ordered that the following changes be, and they are hereby, made in the customs field organization.

We shall be equipped to deal with the great overriding question of security, and with the crucial questions of money and exchange...

Possession of any mine or mines taken under this order shall be terminated by the Secretary of the Interior as soon as he determines that such possession is no longer required for the successful prosecution of the war.

We must go on to do all in our power to conquer the doubts and the fears, the ignorance and the greed, which made this horror possible.