05/22/1941
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"That is an 'if' question."
"That is always under consideration and has been for weeks."
"I know only what I have read in the newspapers."
"Merchant vessels owned by the Government of the United States will not hereafter, until further notice, be permitted to transport to China or Japan any of the arms, ammunition, or implements of war."