I suggested to them that it is always necessary to use care in the raising and expending of the revenue of the government.

While I appreciated the desirability of maintaining their grasp on the Spanish language, the beauty of that language and the richness of its literature, that as a practical matter for them it was quite necessary to have a good…

I did understand that it was the rule that if a question were submitted to me and was not discussed by me that no report was to be made, one way or the other, about the fact of the submission of the question.

I had supposed that the rule about that was that questions that were submitted and not discussed would not be discussed in the press.

I think perhaps it would be well not to take too literally what the contending sides may think it is necessary to give out as publicity, but keep in mind that the main effort of this country is to restore peace and prevent further…

I have great hopes that Mr. Stimson is going to be able to bring that about.

The only thing that I am certain about down there from reports that I have received is that Mr. Stimson is doing his best to compose the differences and find some method by which peace can be restored.

I haven't any report today from Nicaragua.

Perhaps the method that he may employ is not so very important, if it results in bringing about an amicable condition.

The Pan American movement rests on the principle of mutual helpfulness.

While America is not the chief market for breadstuffs and animal products of these countries, it is and must be the chief market for industrial raw material, tropical and semitropical foods, copper, hides, wool, oil, cane sugar, and coffee.

Commerce has no other permanent foundation.

Governments do not have commercial relations.

Our Pan American Union is creating a new civilization in these western Republics, representative of all that is best in the history of the Old World.

It is our conclusion that while government should encourage international trade [...] those who are actually engaged in the transaction of business must necessarily make their own contacts and establish their own markets.

Not only transportation, but communication, is necessary to commercial interchanged.

There is no foundation for the reports, so far as I know, that Mr. MacMurray, our Minister to China, has resigned.

Under free governments trade must be free, and to be of permanent value it ought to be independent.