Excerpts from the Press Conference
09/22/1941
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It is fruitless to try to place the blame for this situation on one particular Nation or on another.
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...
With God's help we will complete the fulfillment of the pledge we renewed when our men returned to Leyte.
Let the Japanese and other enemies of peaceful Nations take warning from these great events in your country; their world...