FDR: “It is neither just nor efficient to permit that task to fall upon any one section or any one group.”

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.

The logic of events and our clear and pressing national interest must override our old party controversies.

I do know it will come, and I do know that tonight there are over seven and a half million Americans overseas or fighting afloat in this great war.

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