Excerpts from the Press Conference
09/30/1940
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Trade is fundamental to the prosperity of Nations, as it is of individuals.
The Nazi war machine has stripped them of raw materials and machine tools and trucks and locomotives.
The coming victory of the United Nations means that they, and not their enemies, have power to establish the foundations...
We shall be equipped to deal with the great overriding question of security, and with the crucial questions of money and...