I think that 'Haiti' is going to be written on my heart.

Now, Therefore, I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, do hereby approve and proclaim the foregoing amendment.

I am sure that the American people believe that the Filipino people have earned the right juridically to be free and independent.

Except as otherwise provided in this order, the procurement of food, food machinery, and other food facilities in foreign countries shall be performed consistently with directives issued to such Administration by the War Food Administrator.

By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the statutes of the United States, as President of the United States and Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy, I hereby order as follows:

Such action on the part of the Congress would assure the Philippine people again of our sincerity of purpose, and of our resolution to accord them as soon as feasible the legal status of complete freedom, independence, and nationhood to…

The United States, in practice, regards the Philippines as having now the same status as the Governments of other independent Nations.

The resources of the United States, in men and material, stand behind that pledge to the people of the Philippines.

I, therefore, recommend legislation by the Congress giving the President the authority, to advance the date provided in existing law and to proclaim the legal independence of the Philippines, as a separate and self-governing Nation, as…

And I am sure you will have every success in this great mission that you are undertaking.

I have assured them that the Government of the United States of America will see to it that their independence will be promptly established and—still more important—that it will be protected.

May these planes fulfill their mission under your guidance.

I count on you to bear yourselves well.

Remember always that we are comrades in arms.

The functions of the War Food Administration and the Commodity Credit Corporation with respect to the procurement and development of food are transferred to the Foreign Economic Administration.

Our men and our allies know they have made no covenant with our Government alone.

It is ordered as follows: Each Federal civil agency performing services in Puerto Rico or in the Virgin Islands shall make current reports to the Secretary of the Interior concerning the work of such agency in such manner and form and at…

A share in the National War Fund is a share in winning the war.