FDR: “I give you and send you one and all, old and young, a Merry Christmas and a truly Happy New Year.”

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

It has served as a link between the fighting man and his loved ones here at home.

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.

That such a body would be best able to perform its nationally important tasks if created independently of the War Labor Board by the President.