Excerpts from the Press Conference
10/31/1938
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This year we give as well in necessity—necessity for our own.
That such a body would be best able to perform its nationally important tasks if created independently of the War Labor ...
The structure of world peace cannot be the work of one man, or one party, or one Nation.
It is ordered that the following changes be, and they are hereby, made in the customs field organization.