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FDR: The elimination of excessive and economically unjustifiable barriers to world trade is a task that only government can…

On the recordOctober 28, 1938
The elimination of excessive and economically unjustifiable barriers to world trade is a task that only government can perform.
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FDR
Democratic · New York

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Message to the National Foreign Trade Council

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