Excerpts from the Press Conference
06/06/1935
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The Nazi war machine has stripped them of raw materials and machine tools and trucks and locomotives.
I hereby direct the Secretary of the Navy to terminate and relinquish, on or before the fifteenth day following the date...
Peace can endure only so long as humanity really insists upon it, and is willing to work for it- and sacrifice for it.
With God's help we will complete the fulfillment of the pledge we renewed when our men returned to Leyte.