FDR: “We must not complacently suppose that we have achieved perfection.”

I recommend that the Congress authorize the acceptance of the Constitution and the participation of the United States in the work of the Food and Agriculture Organization.

The work, my friends, is peace.

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.

It has served as a link between the fighting man and his loved ones here at home.