Woodrow Wilson: “We made the choice in April, 1917.”

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.

For many months there has been a demand that war agencies should be abolished and that there should be less Government interference with business.

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…

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