International consultation and widespread hope for the bettering of relations between the Nations gave to all of us a reasonable expectation that the barriers to mutual confidence, to increased trade, and to the peaceful settlement of disputes could be progressively removed.
Roosevelt reflects on the optimistic international relations that existed at the time of his inauguration in 1933.
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