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Show & & ft - s , 4 4 Q H IIE . PBoSlBN " Conflagration Abroad Men-1 aces Our People, Davison I Declares ' I MUST HELP EUROPE OR SUFFER ALSO Regrets That American Peo-' pie Cannot Direct Help ! Without Delay j .v t TCEW YORK, April 17 If the people :of the United States realised the sit-! luation in Europe they would ask the j Jgovernment to provide at once all that ,the waivstrjeken .nations need to "savej 1 them and start them on their way to ( ! recovery," according to Henry P. Dav-! lidson, chairman of the board of gov- Jemors of the League of Red .'Cross So- ;cieties ' j j Mr, Davidson made this asserttion at' a dinner held .here tonight as a .public j demonstration torhfs services during (the war as chairman of the .war council' coun-cil' of the American "Bed Cross. It: trOTcoTO'il tnWicaf' orlraTfn comuil?sion3 fent by tiki American Red j Crdss lo differentwparls of tho world., ; Dr. Livingston Farrand, present i ; chairman of the American Red Cross, presided, and General Pershing and Dr.; ; J. II. PJnJey. state commissioner of ed-. ed-. lucation, were among the other speak ) ! ors- Mr. Davidson who has just Vetu'iVed ! from Europeoutlined the Rel-ifross j jLeagtio. "He declared llio only condi-: i lions upon which the United States government should be a'sked lo aid Europe Eu-rope are those which best would-insure the success of the relief undertaking, undertak-ing, "quite irrespective of any obligation," obliga-tion," and irrespective of "our own problems at home." ! ''We arc going to find out that we can no more escape the influence of the European situation of today than we wore able to escape the Avar" itself" j ,he saiU. "You cannot have one half! j the world starving nnd the other half) -.eating. We must help put Europe onj ; Its feet or we must participate in Eu- rope's misery , '! Mr. Davison declared that it was' ("unfortunate If months, must pass be-:,fore be-:,fore the Americans can give voice di- erecting that assistance within their . power shall be given to put out a con-jflagraticn con-jflagraticn which Is today menacing I your own people." 'i oo I |