FDR: “Frankly and definitely there is danger ahead—danger against which we must prepare.”

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

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

I wish I had the power, just for this evening, to be present at all of these gatherings.

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.