Harry Truman actually said...

"This country is the great undamaged center of industrial production to which the whole world looks for materials of every kind."

"This Government must continue its control over the export of products in critically short supply here and abroad, in order to protect the economy of the United States as well as to discharge our inter..."

"Foreign demands for these supplies are therefore extremely large."

"In my message to the Congress on January 31, 1947, concerning the extension of specified parts of the Second War Powers Act, I stated that it was desirable to delay any communication on the subject of..."