FDR: “When we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as…”

This year we give as well in necessity—necessity for our own.

Our participation in the Food and Agriculture Organization will be an essential step in this collaboration.

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.

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