SWEEPING POWERS.
President’s Request To Congress
(Received November 3, 9.10 p.m.) WASHINGTON, November 2.
President Roosevelt has asked Congress for sweeping wartime power to suspend any law, particularly tariffs, interfering with the free movement of persons, property and information into and out of the United States. The President said that the speed and volume of war outputs had become primary conditions of victory. Therefore, it was necessary to eliminate peacetime restrictions limiting ability to make full and quickest use of the world’s resources. The President’s message outlined die difficulties of international co-operation among the United Nations and emphasized that the President wanted the power only for the duration of the'war for, first, customs and laws affect) eg the movement of persons and property at United States ports and its borders, and secondly, laws limiting procurement for use of non-American articles or transportation of supplies in non-American vessels.
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Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 34, 4 November 1942, Page 5
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147SWEEPING POWERS. Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 34, 4 November 1942, Page 5
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