FDR: “I hereby authorize the Beet Sugar Committee to accept and utilize the voluntary and uncompensated services of Professor…”

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 will recommend agricultural policies and advise Nations on their food and agricultural problems, but it will have no power to coerce or command.

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

We seek peace—enduring peace.