05/02/1927
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"An exchange of commodities always results in an exchange of ideas."
"Not only transportation, but communication, is necessary to commercial interchanged."
"Under free governments trade must be free, and to be of permanent value it ought to be independent."
"I think it probably wise to look with more or less suspicion on reports concerning the attitude of this Government toward China and its representatives in China which originate out of our country."