After March 31, 1947, moreover, it will be possible to dispense entirely with the use of the broad powers granted by Title III of the Second War Powers Act.

For the purposes of this section, quarters in kind will be considered as furnished for the day of arrival at a permanent station.

In coming to our rescue through last year's epidemic, the National Foundation exhausted its funds from the 1946 March of Dimes and drew heavily upon its resources.

I refer to the continuing fight against the scourge of infantile paralysis.

As the total cases mounted, panic spread; fantastic cures were advertised, for sale and not for sale.

We can do our part by giving to the March of Dimes.

Let me show you by an example what the National Foundation for Infantile paralysis has achieved.

Men absent under orders from their station upon duty which involves travel and also temporary detentions during the journey shall be deemed to be traveling under orders during the entire period of sub absence including the day of departure…

The second of the two epidemics struck last year--first in Florida, then in Alabama, Texas, Minnesota, Colorado, Missouri, Kansas, the Dakotas, Wisconsin, California, Illinois, and all along the Mississippi Valley.

Doctors knew what to do--and not only doctors but nurses and physical therapists--because the National Foundation had financed training for personnel at many hospitals and universities throughout the land.

The National Foundation, supported by your gifts, reaches into every corner of the country to find and help the stricken.

It is hereby amended, effective as of February 15, 1945, to read as follows

The total of dead for that epidemic was more than 20 percent of the victims, most of whom were young children.

If there is one of you who has not yet joined the March of Dimes, I urge you to go now and enlist.

This order shall be effective as of November 13, 1946.

I am deeply shocked and grieved to learn of the death of Prince Gustaf Adolf.

Please accept my heartfelt sympathy in your sorrow.

I have authorized a number of emergency measures to ensure that every possible effort shall be made to expedite the delivery of grains to the peoples of the war-torn countries of Europe and Asia.