Excerpts from the Press Conference
02/12/1942
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I have never for an instant wavered in my belief that an agreement to insure world peace and security can be reached.
Peace can endure only so long as humanity really insists upon it, and is willing to work for it- and sacrifice for it.
The purpose of this moratorium period is to permit the States to make necessary readjustments in their laws with respect...
By virtue of and pursuant to the authority vested in me by section 20 of the act of June 10, 1922.