1400-1500 Presidents Address followed by Premier Daladier

This is the 25th time that Congress has had a special session since its organization a hundred and fifty years ago. John Adams was the first president to call a special session. He summoned the Fifth Congress to meet on May 15th in 1797 to consider suspension of diplomatic relations with France.

Thomas Jefferson and James Madison each founded necessarily called two extraordinary sessions. And Mr. Lincoln called another just before the Civil War. The greatest number of special sessions have been summoned by Woodrow Wilson and Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Roosevelt, three each. Mr. Roosevelt's first extraordinary session of Congress was in March of 1933 to pass emergency new deal laws. The second was in October of 1937 to enact the Social Labor and Farm legislation, and this special session that has convened today makes the third. Right now, the members of the House and the Senate are all sitting quietly in their

seats. The galleries as to be expected are filled to overflowing, and stand these are standing at all of the doors, the Presidential Box is directly opposite us across the full length of the house and it's very hard to recognize anybody sitting in the box from here but we can see some of the Presidential Confidential Secretaries, Ms. Grace Talian I believe, Ms.

Lehand is up there too, outside of that all of the boxes right up to the very edge of the standing Roma filled to overflowing and all of the scene is not as bright as it was on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the Congress. Last spring, the color is still there. There are many ladies in the audience and they're all dressed in