Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

This is not complete, immediate national mobilization.

I am very, very appreciative of it and I think people understand the seriousness of the situation.

Any person employed in a foreign country or in the Virgin Islands, or in Puerto Rico when public exigency warrants, or in any island possess...

I hereby further exempt the said Frank B. Bourn from compulsory retirement for age for a period of one year ending June 30, 1941.