FDR: “We have to think not just of an annual crop, not just something that we can eat the next year.”

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

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

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.

All Federal agencies are directed to cooperate with the Secretary of the Interior to the fullest extent possible.