FDR: “It is a national problem that relates, in the long run, just as much to people who live in cities as it does to people…”

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

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

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.

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