Statement on Labor Day.
09/03/1943
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It is fruitless to try to place the blame for this situation on one particular Nation or on another.
The Nazi war machine has stripped them of raw materials and machine tools and trucks and locomotives.
I hereby designate and authorize the Honorable A. R. de Jesus, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico, to...
The American people rejoice with me in the liberation of your Capital.