FDR: “We must and will marshal our great potential strength to fend off war from our shores.”

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

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.

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…

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