FDR: “Suppose Nature is good again next year, and... the Government does not do anything about it?”

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.

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

This is our chance to serve those who serve us.

That such study should be conducted by a specially appointed commission charged with the duty of examining into the experience which industry and labor have thus far had with these plans, and of reporting the facts for the benefit of the…