FDR

There is hereby established a Board, to be known as the Advisory Board on Just Compensation.

The future of Haiti is very, very bright.

It is becoming a self-contained country, with divergent resources of all sorts of things.

I regard the Nation's advance in prosperity and in friendship during those ten years as something that ought to be written up in the history books.

I think that 'Haiti' is going to be written on my heart.

Now, Therefore, I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, do hereby approve and proclaim the foregoing amendment.

I am sure that the American people believe that the Filipino people have earned the right juridically to be free and independent.

The United States, in practice, regards the Philippines as having now the same status as the Governments of other independent Nations.

I count on you to bear yourselves well.

Except as otherwise provided in this order, the procurement of food, food machinery, and other food facilities in foreign countries shall be performed consistently with directives issued to such Administration by the War Food Administrator.

The resources of the United States, in men and material, stand behind that pledge to the people of the Philippines.

And I am sure you will have every success in this great mission that you are undertaking.

The functions of the War Food Administration and the Commodity Credit Corporation with respect to the procurement and development of food are transferred to the Foreign Economic Administration.

I have assured them that the Government of the United States of America will see to it that their independence will be promptly established and—still more important—that it will be protected.

May these planes fulfill their mission under your guidance.

By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the statutes of the United States, as President of the United States and Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy, I hereby order as follows:

Remember always that we are comrades in arms.

Such action on the part of the Congress would assure the Philippine people again of our sincerity of purpose, and of our resolution to accord them as soon as feasible the legal status of complete freedom, independence, and nationhood to…

I, therefore, recommend legislation by the Congress giving the President the authority, to advance the date provided in existing law and to proclaim the legal independence of the Philippines, as a separate and self-governing Nation, as…

I ask you to remember that the U.S.O. is your share of what we are doing for our own fighting men.

Our men and our allies know they have made no covenant with our Government alone.

Ultimate victory is certain—but that it is still a long way off.

It is ordered as follows: Each Federal civil agency performing services in Puerto Rico or in the Virgin Islands shall make current reports to the Secretary of the Interior concerning the work of such agency in such manner and form and at…

A share in the National War Fund is a share in winning the war.

The National War Fund combines the American genius for organization, the American capacity for economy, and the best of our American tradition for giving freely.