Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

This Executive Order... is designed among other things to prevent the use of the financial facilities of the United States and trade between Japan and the United States.

Context

Statement on the Executive Order on Freezing Japanese and Chinese Assets in the United States

07/25/1941

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