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I do hereby exempt Curtis F. Marbut from the provisions thereof and continue him in the service until July 1, 1935.

I do hereby approve said Code of Fair Competition for the Wheat Flour Milling Industry.

Our task involves the making of a better living out of the lands that we have.

The American people can be trusted to decide wisely upon the measures taken by the Government to eliminate the abuses of the past.

You and I, as the responsible directors of these policies and actions, may, with good reason, look to the future with confidence.

There is ample private money for sound housing projects; and the Congress, in a measure now before you, can stimulate the lending of money for the modernization of existing homes and the building of new homes.

Among our objectives I place the security of the men, women and children of the Nation first.

We must dedicate ourselves anew to a recovery of the old and sacred possessive rights for which mankind has constantly struggled—homes, livelihood, and individual security.

I do adopt and approve the report, recommendations, and findings of the Administrator.

It would be of practical use to the Haitian Government.

I hereby order that the transfer provided for by Executive Order No. 6670, of April 7, 1934, be delayed until October 1, 1934.

I expressed my intention of seeking the necessary authorization from the Congress of the United States.

Further legislative action on this subject at this session of the Congress seems to me, therefore, unnecessary.

The indebtedness to our Government has no relation whatsoever to reparations payments made or owed to them.

I firmly believe in the principle that an individual debtor should at all times have access to the creditor.

We are all brothers now, brothers in a new understanding.

Today, we have many means of knowing each other—means that at last have sounded the doom of sectionalism.

Surely, all this is holy ground.

There developed the problem of self-contained territories because the Nation's expansion exceeded its development of means of transportation.

It is ordered that the above-quoted provision of section 4 of Executive Order No. 6166 of June 10, 1933, be, and it is hereby, revoked insofar as and to the extent that it is applicable to the disbursing functions under the jurisdiction of…

The definite policy of the United States from now on is one opposed to armed intervention.

It is ordered that a division which shall be known as the Division of Territories and Island Possessions be, and it is hereby, established in the Department of the Interior.

This Government will make it clear that it not only opposes the policy of armed intervention, but that it renounces those rights of intervention and interference in Cuba.

I have determined that such transfer of the disbursing functions... would adversely affect the operation of our military and naval forces in time of emergency and would not be in the public interest.

Enforcement of this provision at this time will produce a serious condition among many thousands of families in the Philippine Islands.