Woodrow Wilson: “It wars perfectly natural to break this precedent, natural because the demand for intimate conference took precedence…”

We have been vigorously building up a great merchant marine and providing for improvement of marketing in foreign countries by the passage of an export trade law.

The soundness of the principle embodied in Section io seems generally to be admitted.

Clearly, this is no time for the erection here of high trade barriers.

The burdens of war are not lifted when the fighting ceases.