Woodrow Wilson: “I hereby vest in the Secretary of State the executive administration of the provisions of subsection (b).”

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.

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

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

Such a policy is antagonistic to the fundamental principle of equal and exact justice to all.