FDR: “There should be no further news.”

The Secretary of the Interior shall make employment available and provide protection to all employees working at such mines.

The coming total defeat of our enemies, and of the philosophy of conflict and aggression... gives us a new chance and a better chance than we have ever had to bring about conditions under which the Nations of the world substitute…

We shall be equipped to deal with the great overriding question of security, and with the crucial questions of money and exchange...

The Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed to take possession of any and all such mines.