12/10/1937
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"Unemployment is one of the bitter and galling problems that now afflict mankind."
"The Government of the United States stands ready to join in extending its friendly services in an effort to further the attainment of a pacific solution of the present controversy."
"The inherent right to work is one of the elemental privileges of a free people."
"I have learned with profound regret of the controversy which has unfortunately arisen between our sister republics of Haiti and the Dominican Republic."