
Keeping on getting ready for the postwar period is going to save the Nation, I would say, almost several billion dollars in time, in lack of employment, in the uncertainty of employees.
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Keeping on getting ready for the postwar period is going to save the Nation, I would say, almost several billion dollars in time, in lack of employment, in the uncertainty of employees.

I think you had better ask Mr. [Robert] Doughton [Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee].

Your victory exposes with the light of truth the godlessness of the lie they teach.

Your courage and faith and determination in overcoming the after-effects of infantile paralysis and thereby restoring to the public the opportunity of enjoying your beautiful art—all result in a victory—your victory—which is an inspiration…

By virtue of and pursuant to the authority vested in me by section 1745, as amended, and section 1752 of the Revised Statutes of the United States.

To inspire by their example fresh determination among all the United Nations to bend every energy to bring about the final defeat and unconditional surrender of the common enemy.

I congratulate you on the brilliant victory at Stalingrad of the armies under your supreme command.

I want to emphasize what I said in the Annual Message to Congress.

Accomplishment of the abolition of the extraterritorial system in China is a step in line with the expressed desires of the Government and the people of the United States.

It is ordered that the following changes be, and they are hereby, made in the customs field organization:

The treaty and the exchange of notes have my approval.

The spirit reflected by the treaty will, I am sure, be gratifying to the Governments and the peoples of all the United Nations.