FDR: “Furthermore, enactment of this proposed legislation would constitute a breach of faith on the part of the Federal…”

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.

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.

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

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…