Press Conference During a Tour Defense Facilities
07/28/1940
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That the President appoint a commission for these purposes.
It is fruitless to try to place the blame for this situation on one particular Nation or on another.
The Nazi war machine has stripped them of raw materials and machine tools and trucks and locomotives.
it is ordered that Paul H. Alling, who resigned his position as an officer in the Foreign Service of the United States o...