FDR: “It is ordered that Executive Order No. 2123 be modified to permit the Navy Department to have primary jurisdiction over…”

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

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.

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.

We are absolutely un changed in our policy of two years ago, for immediate Filipino independence.