FDR: “It should provide for control of surpluses when and as necessary, but at the same time it should preserve the export…”

The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and of danger.

Our participation in the Food and Agriculture Organization will be an essential step in this collaboration.

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.

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.