FDR: “They are making Japan pay an increasingly terrible price for her ambitious attempts to seize control of the whole…”

I recommend that the Congress authorize the acceptance of the Constitution and the participation of the United States in the work of the Food and Agriculture Organization.

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…

I do know it will come, and I do know that tonight there are over seven and a half million Americans overseas or fighting afloat in this great war.

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