FDR: “I do hereby approve said Code of Fair Competition for the Southern Rice Milling Industry.”

We are absolutely un changed in our policy of two years ago, for immediate Filipino independence.

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

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

I wish I had the power, just for this evening, to be present at all of these gatherings.