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FDR: The primary responsibility lies with each Nation for seeing that its own people have the food needed for health and…

On the recordJune 6, 1943
The primary responsibility lies with each Nation for seeing that its own people have the food needed for health and life; steps to this end are for national determination.
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FDR
Democratic · New York

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Address to the United Nations Conference on Food and Agriculture

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