Woodrow Wilson: “We can not do any effective thinking for the world until we know that there is settled peace.”

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

Actual relief can come only from the adoption of constructive measures of a broader scope, from the restoration of peace everywhere in the world.

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

The said United States Fuel Administration is hereby authorized to procure information in reference to the business of coal and coke producers and distributors in the manner provided for in Sections 6 and 9 of the Act of Congress approved…