FDR: “I have today approved the Joint Resolution passed by the Congress.”

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

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…

Trade is fundamental to the prosperity of Nations, as it is of individuals.

We must go on to do all in our power to conquer the doubts and the fears, the ignorance and the greed, which made this horror possible.