Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

"to commit ourselves definitively at this time to a formalized course of action might well be premature and might therefore even do more harm than good."

"the monetary understanding reached last September first with England and France and then with a number of other countries was rightly interpreted as being a great step forward in the attainment of the..."

"the kind of dollar which a generation hence will have the same purchasing and debt-paying power as the dollar value we hope to attain in the near future."

"we are watching all developments in the monetary sphere with a view to making any timely contribution we can."