FDR: “We want and expect the help of the future Italy toward lasting peace.”

It will recommend agricultural policies and advise Nations on their food and agricultural problems, but it will have no power to coerce or command.

As their Commander in Chief I call upon you, my fellow Americans, to oversubscribe the 1945 Red Cross War Fund.

The logic of events and our clear and pressing national interest must override our old party controversies.

The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and of danger.