Excerpts from the Press Conference in Hyde Park
08/19/1940
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As their Commander in Chief I call upon you, my fellow Americans, to oversubscribe the 1945 Red Cross War Fund.
Let the Japanese and other enemies of peaceful Nations take warning from these great events in your country; their world...
The bill is eminently fair to the States.
It is fruitless to try to place the blame for this situation on one particular Nation or on another.