FDR: “The present territorial freight rate boundaries constitute barriers against the free flow of commerce.”

Trade is fundamental to the prosperity of Nations, as it is of individuals.

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 Federal Loan Administrator and the War Food Administrator are hereby designated as additional members of the Economic Stabilization Board.

We shall be equipped to deal with the great overriding question of security, and with the crucial questions of money and exchange...