This order shall be effective from June 1, 1945, until June 30, 1946, unless sooner modified or revoked.

Our blows will destroy their whole modern industrial plant and organization, which they have built up during the past century and which they are now devoting to a hopeless cause.

Dear Steve: I am very loath to see June first come around because, as you state in your very kind letter of the twenty-eighth, it means that you are definitely leaving your official post at the White House.

My best wishes go with you in your new venture and in anything you undertake.

You know that it is no mere politeness for me to say that I hate to see you go.

You have given me the benefit not only of your long experience in the White House, but of your innate wisdom and sound judgment; and I am sure that, without you, my task would have been much more difficult.

I know from the lips of President Roosevelt how much you meant to him, and how much he relied upon you.

We celebrate Flag Day this year with a fresh sense of our strength as a nation.

It is our custom each year to set aside a day on which to render special honor to our Flag.

Let this display of the flags of the United Nations symbolize our unity with our Allies both upon the battlefields of war and under the skies of peace.

The Government has thus incurred a moral obligation to these workers and to those who have stuck faithfully to their posts in the past.

We must provide maximum security to those who have given so fully of themselves on the fighting and production fronts.

The transition from war to peace is part and parcel of the war and we cannot shirk our obligation to those temporarily unemployed through no fault of their own.

Our Flag will be planted in the heart of the empire of our last remaining enemy.

Let us observe this Flag Day by raising our Flag and beside it the flags of the United Nations.

Adequate unemployment insurance is an indispensable form of prosperity insurance.

I direct the officials of the Federal Government and I request the officials of the State and local government to display the Flag of our Republic on all public buildings on Flag Day.

Decent unemployment benefits would serve as a bulwark against postwar deflation.