FDR: “We will bend that evil and barbarous Nation to the will of those they have outraged.”

It is ordered that the following changes be, and they are hereby, made in the customs field organization.

It will recommend agricultural policies and advise Nations on their food and agricultural problems, but it will have no power to coerce or command.

It seems obvious that we will be more or less responsible for security in all the Pacific waters.

We shall be equipped to deal with the great overriding question of security, and with the crucial questions of money and exchange...