FOREIGN AGRICULTURAL SERVICE PROGRAMS AND FOREIGN RELATIONS

Cooperation will bring sound building. And sound building of a
Food for Peace program is, in the United States view, more important
than speed—important as speed is.

CONCLUSION

The world is growing smaller, and as it continues to shrink agricul-
ture will assume a more and more important role. T am reminded of
the slogan we used during World War !!—“Food will win the war and
write the peace.” Occasionally we may have smiled at the brave
promise behind these words. But, as it turned out, food actually was
a major factor in assuring an allied victory. Since the end of the war,
food actually has done much to preserve peace in many areas of the
world. It can do even more, I am convinced.

Again, let me congratulate the Extension Services for their interest
in the international implications of agriculture. In preparing informa-
tion in this field, and making this knowledge widely available, Exten-
sion is meeting a real need of farmers for facts concerning their business
interests—world-wide interests.

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