FDR

I do not minimize the importance of the motion picture industry as the most popular medium of mass entertainment.

We have seen the American motion picture become foremost in all the world.

Our problem of national defense has become one of helping to defend the entire Western Hemisphere.

The American motion picture as a national and international force is a phenomenon of our own generation.

Dictators think it a dangerous thing for their unfortunate peoples to know that in our democracy officers of the Government are the servants, and never the masters of the people.

The Americas stand forth today as a notable example of international solidarity in a world in which freedom and human liberty are threatened with extinction.

An all-important factor in hemispheric defense, in defense of democracies today, is the Lend-Lease Bill.

I hereby prescribe the following additional regulations governing the exportation of the articles and materials designated in my proclamation of February 25, 1941.

The articles and materials designated in my proclamation of February 25, 1941, pursuant to section 6 of the act of July 2, 1940, shall be construed to include the following.

Regulations 2 to 12 inclusive of the Regulations issued July 2, 1940, pursuant to section 6 of the act of July 2, 1940, are applicable to the exportation of the articles and materials listed in paragraph 1 (1.) through (3.) inclusive.

It is ordered that the limits of the customs port of entry of Jonesport, Maine, in Customs Collection District No. 1 (Maine and New Hampshire), be, and they are hereby, extended to include the towns (townships) of Beals, Jonesboro, Roque…

Pursuant to the authority vested in me by the provisions of section 6 of the act of Congress approved July 2, 1940, entitled 'AN ACT To expedite the strengthening of the national defense,' I hereby prescribe the following additional…

I am confident that the report which I am here with transmitting will help in devising effective means for enlarging the scope and extending the area of this type of civil service.

We must do more to obtain the most effect from new plants, new houses, and, most important, from new workers.

I have deemed it important to try to work out ways and means whereby the country would have the advantages that come from a professional and permanent public service.

The civil service conception is a postulate of our Government.

Equity requires that that element of risk attributable to the national defense effort should be shared by the Federal Government.

The national defense program has required a large expansion of existing military and naval establishments.

Their report has now reached me and in view of its importance for furthering the betterment of the national public administration, I consider it appropriate to bring it to the attention of the Congress.

We ought now to appraise the qualities necessary for those who discharge those highest functions.

There have been shortages of housing, insufficient sanitary and health facilities, overcrowding of transportation services, and inadequate recreational facilities.

I am not criticizing the press—haven't been.

Let's have a little discussion and see what the Congress does.

It might be the safest way; but of course, naturally, one doesn't like to withhold information from committees of Congress.

I fail to see exactly what you are driving at.