FDR: “The rapid organization and progress of forty-six State Planning Boards shows that the people of our country understand…”

The work, my friends, is peace.

We can be proud of all that the Red Cross has meant to them.

I recommend that the Congress authorize the acceptance of the Constitution and the participation of the United States in the work of the Food and Agriculture Organization.

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.