FDR: “Victory over the Nazis and the Japanese is certain and inevitable.”

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

The coming total defeat of our enemies, and of the philosophy of conflict and aggression... gives us a new chance and a better chance than we have ever had to bring about conditions under which the Nations of the world substitute…

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

It is ordered that the following changes be, and they are hereby, made in the customs field organization.