Excerpts from the Press Conference
02/01/1943
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We are a Nation of free people, and free people know how to go over the top- whether it's a Nazi wall, a Japanese island...
I hereby authorize the Secretary of War to take possession of the plants and facilities of the American Enka Corporation...
The Nazi war machine has stripped them of raw materials and machine tools and trucks and locomotives.
We shall have to take the responsibility for world collaboration, or we shall have to bear the responsibility for anothe...