FDR: “We Americans will contribute unified production and unified acceptance of sacrifice and of effort.”

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

This is our chance to serve those who serve us.

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

Improved standards of nutrition, increased levels of farm incomes, avoidance of agricultural surpluses—these are among the important objectives that the Food and Agriculture Organization will assist the Nations of the world in achieving.