Excerpts from the Press Conference
04/12/1937
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That such a body would be best able to perform its nationally important tasks if created independently of the War Labor ...
We must always bear in mind that fact, when we speak or think of international relations.
We can be proud of all that the Red Cross has meant to them.
It is fruitless to try to place the blame for this situation on one particular Nation or on another.