FDR: “Last year a drought of unprecedented severity was visited upon the West.”

It will recommend agricultural policies and advise Nations on their food and agricultural problems, but it will have no power to coerce or command.

We must go on to do all in our power to conquer the doubts and the fears, the ignorance and the greed, which made this horror possible.

This year we give as well in necessity—necessity for our own.

It may be in another week or ten days.