FDR: “They have often served to keep lines of communication open when disorder, war, or misfortune closed other channels.”

Our participation in the Food and Agriculture Organization will be an essential step in this collaboration.

It seems obvious that we will be more or less responsible for security in all the Pacific waters.

We must go on to do all in our power to conquer the doubts and the fears, the ignorance and the greed, which made this horror possible.

This year we give as well in necessity—necessity for our own.