Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

"Failure to observe them must be regarded as socially and economically oppressive and unwarranted under almost any circumstance."

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

"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..."

"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."