FDR: “I believe it to be important to know the facts touching this situation.”

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

The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and of danger.

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…