FDR

Our national defense is a public use of the highest order.

In brief, we must take the sinking of the Robin Moor as a warning to the United States not to resist the Nazi movement of world conquest.

We must take it that notice has now been served upon us that no American ship or cargo on any of the seven seas can consider itself immune from acts of piracy.

Our Government believes that freedom from cruelty and inhuman treatment is a natural right.

The Volunteer Participation Committee shall consist of not more than forty-five members.

We, too, born to freedom, and believing in freedom, are willing to fight to maintain freedom.

We, and all others who believe as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.

It is ordered that the Executive order of December 12, 1917, creating Power Site Reserve No. 661, be, and it is hereby, modified

Subject to valid existing rights, the public lands on Amaknak Island, Alaska, comprising approximately 1,930 acres, are hereby withdrawn from all forms of appropriation under the public-land laws.

By virtue of the authority vested in me as President of the United States, and subject to all valid existing rights, it is ordered that the following-described public lands be, and they are hereby, withdrawn from all forms of appropriation…

I do prescribe the following: Executive Order No. 8389 of April 10, 1940, as amended, is amended to read as follows:

Every person engaging in any of the transactions referred to in Sections 1 and 2 of this Order shall keep a full record of each such transaction engaged in by him.

The term 'this Order,' as used herein, shall mean Executive Order No. 8389 of April 10, 1940, as amended.

The Secretary of the Treasury may investigate, regulate, or prohibit under such regulations, rulings, or instructions as he may prescribe.

The reservation made by section one of this order supersedes, so far as any lands on Amaknak Island are affected, the reservations made by the Executive order of June 10, 1902.

Now, Therefore, I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by section 2 of the act of June 8, 1906, do proclaim that the following-described lands in Bibb County…

Warning is hereby expressly given to all unauthorized persons not to appropriate, injure, destroy, or remove any part or feature of this monument.

All employees in the executive civil service of the Government whose fingerprints are not now on file in the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice, or in the agency in which they are employed, are hereby required to be…

I hereby further exempt the said Percy Nicholls from compulsory retirement for age for a period of one year ending June 30, 1942.

It is hereby ordered that Dr. Harold C. Bryant may be appointed to the classified position of Superintendent of Grand Canyon National Park.

The will of our people, as expressed through the Congress, was to meet this problem.

I call upon the workers to return to their jobs, with full confidence in the desire and ability of this Administration to protect their persons and their interests.

I have determined that this plant must be reopened at once.

In the Federal housing program we have laid a groundwork which has not only made a substantial beginning in the solution of the general over-all housing needs of the Nation.

I have an abiding confidence in the loyalty and patriotism of the American workers.