User:Lusty Mercantalist

"President Roosevelt was such a lusty mercantilist when it came to demanding gold imports from trading partners regardless of their likely ally or enemy status that he elicited a strong rejoinder from Winston Churchill in early December 1940. Churchill declared that “if, at the height of this struggle, Great Britain were to be divested of all saleable assets so that after victory was won with our blood, civilization saved and time gained for the United States to be fully armed against all eventualities, we should stand stripped to the bone. Such a course would not be in the moral or economic interests of either of our countries." - Ted Lehmann