FDR: “You have heard it said that while we are succeeding greatly on the fighting front, we are failing miserably on the home…”

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.

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

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.

All sections of our population—labor, farmers, businessmen have shared and will share in the benefits which increased trade brings.