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In U.N.R.R.A. we have devised a mechanism, based on the processes of true democracy, a mechanism that can go far toward accomplishment of such an objective in the days and months of desperate emergency that will follow the overthrow of the…

The people of these 44 Nations include approximately 80 percent of the human race.

It is not only humane and charitable for the United Nations to supply medicine and food and other necessities to the peoples freed from Axis control; it is a clear matter of enlightened self-interest.

It would be supreme irony for us to win a victory, and then to inherit world chaos simply because we were unprepared to meet what we know we shall have to meet.

The work confronting U.N.R.R.A. is immediate and urgent.

Fourth-class postmasters in the Hawaiian Islands.

the Secretary of the Interior shall make employment available and provide protection to all employees resuming work at such mines

the Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed to take immediate possession, so far as may be necessary or desirable, of any and all mines producing coal

the coal mines in which stoppages or strikes have occurred, or are threatened, be taken over by the Government of the United States

We hereby solemnly declare and give full warning of their declaration as follows:

Those German officers and men and members of the Nazi Party who have been responsible for or have taken a consenting part in the above atrocities... will be sent back to the countries in which their abominable deeds were done.

He shall recognize the right of the workers to continue their membership in any labor organization

Let those who have hitherto not imbrued their hands with innocent blood beware lest they join the ranks of the guilty.

We are at war, and all of us must make sacrifices for our common good and common safety.

But if I am mistaken and the miners do not accept the Board's proposals, I shall take decisive action to see that coal is mined.

We have been receiving from Australia enough beef and veal, practically, to feed all of our troops that are based on Australia.