Woodrow Wilson: “It is surprising how fast the process of return to a peace footing has moved in the three weeks since the fighting…”

Such records, files, reports, copies of contracts, correspondence, and proceedings transferred under this order, and such personnel detailed or assigned thereunder, as are stated in a written notice to the Secretary of the Federal Trade…

I am not convinced that the method proposed is wise, that the benefits, if any, would offset the evils which would result, or that the same or larger advantages cannot be secured without resort to Government intervention.

I do not believe that they should be accorded indirectly.

We shall not witness an immediate satisfactory adjustment of domestic and international trade relations.