FDR: “We don't want and we are not going to copy other forms of government—ours is good enough for us.”

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 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 study should be conducted by a specially appointed commission charged with the duty of examining into the experience which industry and labor have thus far had with these plans, and of reporting the facts for the benefit of the…

As their Commander in Chief I call upon you, my fellow Americans, to oversubscribe the 1945 Red Cross War Fund.