FDR: “If this country is worth living in, then this country of ours is worth defending every day and every year of the life of…”

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.

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

Trade is fundamental to the prosperity of Nations, as it is of individuals.

That the whole question of guaranteed wage plans and the possibility of their future development in American industries as an aid in the stabilization of employment and the regularization of production, should now be comprehensively…