Excerpts from the Press Conference
02/20/1941
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This year we give as well in necessity—necessity for our own.
The Nazi war machine has stripped them of raw materials and machine tools and trucks and locomotives.
Our participation in the Food and Agriculture Organization will be an essential step in this collaboration.
I hereby exempt the said Harry F. Hawley from compulsory retirement for age for such time as may be deemed necessary, bu...