FDR: “it is hereby ordered that the public land in the Territory of Alaska be, and the same is hereby, withdrawn and reserved…”

I do know it will come, and I do know that tonight there are over seven and a half million Americans overseas or fighting afloat in this great war.

We can be proud of all that the Red Cross has meant to them.

The Secretary of the Interior shall make employment available and provide protection to all employees working at such mines.

The work, my friends, is peace.