FDR: “This order shall take effect as of January 1, 1935, and shall be retroactive to July 15, 1933.”

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.

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.

By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the statutes of the United States, it is hereby ordered as follows:

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