Thus spoke Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York in January 1932 at the completion of the Regional Plan of New York, putting into words a philosophy he had long cherished of a practical kind of regionalism which would bring producers and consumers together not in a city market, but on their own acres of farmland or rural village. A little over a year later, the former governor, the new president of the United States, with the aid of Congress established the machinery whereby his theories regarding a better way of life could be tried out. Indeed the most important development in connection with the present back-to-the-land movement is the fact that the present administration has committed the government to a new land and population policy.