Excerpts from the Press Conference
02/02/1939
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I know and they know that bankruptcy, ruin, despair and disaster, which had been their previous portion through long years of neglect and in...
You have adhered without deviation to the settled processes of democracy.
I accept your resignation effective at the close of business on September 5, 1940.
There is no higher arbitrament than the bar of public opinion.