Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

Following such transfers, no corporations created and organized by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation... shall exercise any of its powers and functions in regard to any activity or transaction in or pertaining to any foreign country except as ordered by the Director of War Mobilization.

Context

Executive Order 9361—Supplementing the Executive Order Establishing the Office of War Mobilization and Providing for the...

07/14/1943

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