FDR: “I pray God no hazard of the future may ever dissipate or destroy that common ideal.”

We all know that the reduction of Government-created barriers to trade will not solve all our trade problems.

The coming total defeat of our enemies, and of the philosophy of conflict and aggression... gives us a new chance and a better chance than we have ever had to bring about conditions under which the Nations of the world substitute…

By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the statutes of the United States, it is hereby ordered as follows:

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