Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

This measure, in effect, brings all financial and import and export trade transactions in which Japanese interests are involved under the control of the Government.

Context

Statement on the Executive Order on Freezing Japanese and Chinese Assets in the United States

07/25/1941

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