I believe that the coal miners will not continue the strike against their Government.

I appealed to the miners to resume work immediately.

It is hereby ordered as follows: The Civil Air Patrol, established in the Office of Civilian Defense... are transferred to the Department of War.

Our form of Government, based as it is on a system of free enterprise, is meeting successfully the challenges of the totalitarian Governments.

But we are not satisfied. We must not be satisfied.

More cooperation, more teamwork, and more production, all the way from the farms and mines through the assembly lines, will enable us to win the war more quickly.

We are meeting the test because there is unity of purpose on the part of our people in all walks of life.

American business is meeting the challenge of war and meeting it in a way that brings comfort to our people, and fear to our enemies.

The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to withdraw or reserve lands of the public domain and other lands owned or controlled by the United States.

By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and statutes of the United States, and particularly by the First War Powers Act, 1941, it is ordered as follows.

It is with a feeling of deepest horror, which I know will be shared by all civilized peoples, that I have to announce the barbarous execution by the Japanese Government of some of the members of this country's armed forces.

This Government has vigorously condemned this act of barbarity in a formal communication sent to the Japanese Government.

It is hereby ordered as follows:1.

The decoration of the Medal for Merit shall be awarded only by the President of the United States or at his direction.

For the duration of the war and six months thereafter all positions in or under the Inland Waterways Corporation.

Nothing in this Order shall be deemed to limit in any way the authority of the Departments of War and Navy to initiate or carry out directly, without review or approval by the Administrator, any action relating to solid fuels or the solid…

By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the statutes of the United States, particularly by the First War Powers Act, 1941, as President of the United States and Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy, and in order…

I hereby designate Emory B. Land as Chairman of the United States Maritime Commission.