Woodrow Wilson: “Force will not accomplish anything that is permanent.”

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

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…

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

The neutrality of Belgium was guaranteed by the Treaty of London of 1839.