Woodrow Wilson: “America has to do at this moment nothing less than prove to the world whether she has meant what she said in the past.”

I am in full sympathy with every sound proposal to promote foreign trade along sound business lines.

In recommending to you that Congress take appropriate action with regard to this agreement, certain facts should be brought to your attention.

It waits with acquiescence, in the first place, for laws which will effectively prohibit and prevent such interlocking of the personnel of the directorates of great corporations—banks and railroads, industrial, commercial and public…

Each of the undersigned will recommend to the appropriate governmental agency of his Government that upon the delivery to the Reparation Commission of such bonds his Government accept an amount thereof corresponding to the sums which…