Woodrow Wilson: “The men who have fought in this war have been the men from free nations who were determined that that sort of thing…”

I return herewith, without my approval, House joint resolution No. 440.

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…

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.

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