Excerpts from the Press Conference
12/18/1944
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All administrative or general or other expenses of the Office of the Alien Property Custodian...may be paid out of any funds or other proper...
My idea is we take everything we need, no matter what the technicalities are.
All property of the Alien Property Division of the Department of Justice...are hereby transferred to the Alien Property Custodian.
All authority, rights, privileges, powers, duties, and functions transferred or delegated to the Department of Justice are hereby transferre...