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On the recordMarch 25, 1945
It will recommend agricultural policies and advise Nations on their food and agricultural problems, but it will have no power to coerce or command.
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FDR
Democratic · New York

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Transmittal to Congress of a Report by the United Nations Interim Commission on Food and Agriculture.

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