I still hope that Rome can be made an open city.

I don't believe in destruction merely for retaliation; it's the wrong basis to put it on.

I think the easiest thing is to tell you in general what has been happening for over a year.

I feel it necessary to state my own understanding of the amendment.

It was presented to the Senate and House to avoid the consequences that would have followed the adoption of the language in the appropriation bill.

I am satisfied this bill has no such meaning.

These assurances are in accord with the purpose and the terms of the compromise amendment and must be taken as controlling.

We must go forward without any further public debate as to matters which are now academic so far as winning the war is presently concerned.

All personnel, property, records, funds, contracts, assets, liabilities, and capital stock of these corporations... are transferred with these corporations to the Office of Economic Warfare.

Following such transfers, no corporations created and organized by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation... shall exercise any of its powers and functions in regard to any activity or transaction in or pertaining to any foreign country…

Until such time as the Congress shall provide other means of financing, the Secretary of Commerce and the Reconstruction Finance Corporation are authorized and directed to supply necessary funds.

I am persuaded that the present controversy indicates that future cooperative action between your two agencies is impossible.

I cannot overlook any further violations of my instructions.

The important thing is to clear the decks and to get on with the war at once.

The Director of the Office of Economic Warfare may reconstitute the Boards of Directors of these corporations.

There is established in the Office for Emergency Management an Office of Economic Warfare.

Our soldiers have come to rid Italy of Fascism and all its unhappy symbols.

On that day we will joyfully turn our energies from the grim duties of war to the fruitful tasks of reconstruction.