Excerpts from the Press Conference
01/20/1938
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The Nazi war machine has stripped them of raw materials and machine tools and trucks and locomotives.
It is fruitless to try to place the blame for this situation on one particular Nation or on another.
It is good to be home.
As their Commander in Chief I call upon you, my fellow Americans, to oversubscribe the 1945 Red Cross War Fund.