FDR: “Every American who has played a part in the job of growing, conserving, harvesting, distributing, and processing our…”

It may be in another week or ten days.

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.

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.