I am confident that my words reflect the feeling in the hearts of all Americans.

As President of the United States, I am privileged to voice this tribute of my profound respect and admiration for valor above and beyond the call of duty which characterized the spirit of our soldiers in those bitter early weeks of the…

Our gifts to the Community Chest help all these people and many others for the chest includes most of the private organizations, in our towns and cities, that provide health and welfare services.

Tonight we in the United States, and our friends in Canada, are starting the annual Community Chest campaigns.

By giving to the Community Chest, we help the sick.

By giving to the Community Chest, we help young people.

By giving to the Community Chest we help people with physical and mental handicaps; we help young mothers who must work for a living; we help older people who need assistance.

The Community Chest gives each of us an opportunity to help his neighbor.

By giving to the Community Chest we fulfill the Biblical injunction to love thy neighbor, and that means help thy neighbor.

I salute you all, and say to all of you from all of us at home, 'Well and nobly done.'

When we help our neighbors--young and old alike--we make them better able to be self-reliant fellow citizens.

In a very real sense, our contributions will be for the national defense.

This year the Community Chest needs your support more than ever, because the chest must meet emergency needs of the men and women in our Army, Navy, and Air Force.

To impose a liability upon the Federal Government for such penalties, interest, and charges is inconsistent with the sound and long established doctrines that claims against the United States do not bear interest and that the Federal…

We can't let our guard down, and shouldn't.

The net effect of these adjustments has usually been in favor of the Government so that the adjusted obligation of the prior purchaser has been somewhere between the price which he originally paid for the vessel and the statutory sales…

The bipartisan foreign policy has always been on that basis, and there has been no change in it whatever.

Finally, the benefits accruing to prior purchasers, if they are allowed to capitalize these amounts above the statutory sales price, would afford them the special operating advantages which arise from the higher depreciation allowances…