FDR: “I feel that benefits obtainable from this treaty will permeate agricultural and other industries.”

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.

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…

It is not really of any great importance.

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