Excerpts from the Press Conference
02/23/1942
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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.
The jurisdiction granted by this order shall cease at the expiration of the six months' period following the termination...
The bill is eminently fair to the States.