FDR: “Most business men, big and little, know that their government neither wants to put them out of business nor to prevent…”

It is ordered that the following changes be, and they are hereby, made in the customs field organization.

The coming total defeat of our enemies, and of the philosophy of conflict and aggression... gives us a new chance and a better chance than we have ever had to bring about conditions under which the Nations of the world substitute…

All sections of our population—labor, farmers, businessmen have shared and will share in the benefits which increased trade brings.

That such a body would be best able to perform its nationally important tasks if created independently of the War Labor Board by the President.