FDR: “Few Americans have possessed in such degree the confidence of statesmen at home and abroad as did this modest and…”

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

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.

It may be in another week or ten days.

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.