Excerpts from the Press Conference
08/25/1941
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I cannot restrain the impulse to record my appreciation of their heroism.
They will ever be held in honored reverence for their unselfish ministrations.
Ours will be the victory if we set ourselves resolutely to the performance of those spiritual and corporal acts of mercy which have ever bee...
This Government is determined not to become involved in the controversy and is anxious for the restoration and maintenance of peace.