Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

It is, of course, wholly clear that the intent of the Congress by this provision was to exempt from import duty 448,000,000 pounds of coconu...

No effort has been made to work out some form of compromise which would be less unjust to the Philippine people.

This action was of course directly contrary to the intent of the provision in the Independence Act cited above.

I have found that the prohibition of the sale of arms and munitions of war in the United States to those countries now engaged in armed conf...