Letter on the Free Press
09/01/1938
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The Nazi war machine has stripped them of raw materials and machine tools and trucks and locomotives.
It is fruitless to try to place the blame for this situation on one particular Nation or on another.
I hereby authorize the Secretary of War to take possession of the plants and facilities of the American Enka Corporation...
I hereby direct the Secretary of the Navy to terminate and relinquish, on or before the fifteenth day following the date...