FDR: “I cannot assent to the position taken by the proponents of H. R. 2241 that the monument reserve should be annulled.”

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.

All sections of our population—labor, farmers, businessmen have shared and will share in the benefits which increased trade brings.

We all know that the reduction of Government-created barriers to trade will not solve all our trade problems.

As their Commander in Chief I call upon you, my fellow Americans, to oversubscribe the 1945 Red Cross War Fund.