FDR: “We delude ourselves if we believe that the surrender of the armies of our enemies will make the peace we long for.”

All sections of our population—labor, farmers, businessmen have shared and will share in the benefits which increased trade brings.

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.

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

It is ordered that the following changes be, and they are hereby, made in the customs field organization.