FDR

We are doing all we can to help them and, incidentally, to prevent the dictators from gaining footholds.

But the ships have got to move.

I don't think that there is much argument that is justified—with honesty—in trying to obscure the main objectives.

That is a pending question.

It is ordered that the following-described national-forest lands, in the State of Arkansas, be, and they are hereby, transferred from the Ouachita National Forest to the Ozark National Forest.

I don't think we can go into that at the present time.

Oh, absolutely and clearly.

I hereby further exempt the said Maurice C. Latta from compulsory retirement for age for a period of one year ending October 31, 1942.

I hereby exempt the said Jules A. Rodier from compulsory retirement for age for a period of one year ending November 30, 1942.

I hereby exempt the said Samuel Thomas from compulsory retirement for age for a period of one year ending September 30, 1942.

Obtain, develop, and determine overall estimates of materials and commodities required for export purposes in the interest of the economic defense of the Nation.

I hereby exempt the said Edward D. Anderson from compulsory retirement for age for a period of one year ending September 30, 1942.

The Economic Defense Board is authorized and directed to discharge and perform the following responsibilities and duties.

By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and statutes of the United States and in order to define further the functions and duties of the Economic Defense Board.

I hereby further exempt the said Nelson S. Thompson from compulsory retirement for age for a period of one year ending September 30, 1942.

Soulis Newman may be appointed to a classified position as guard in the Public Buildings Administration, Federal Works Agency, without compliance with the requirements of the Civil Service Rules.

I hereby exempt the said Miss Augusta F. Johnston from compulsory retirement for age for a period of one year ending September 30, 1942.

It is time for all Americans, Americans of all the Americas to stop being deluded by the romantic notion that the Americas can go on living happily and peacefully in a Nazi-dominated world.

The time for active defense is now.

The American people can have no further illusions about it.

This was piracy- piracy legally and morally.

Germany admits that it was a German submarine.

This attack on the Greer was no localized military operation in the North Atlantic.

I assume that the German leaders are not deeply concerned, tonight or any other time, by what we Americans or the American Government say or publish about them.

No act of violence, no act of intimidation will keep us from maintaining intact two bulwarks of American defense.