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Show HOOVER TELLS Fooinira Relaxation of Blockade Will Relieve Germany, Administrator Says. Little Nation Allies Are in I Desperate Need After Hun Oppressions. NEW YORK, Nov Hi. "The I'rob-em I'rob-em of feeding Germany is not one of .oing to their relief, bnt of relaxing 'he blockade so that they may seeure I for themselves the bare necessities that I will eive stable government,'' said ller-I ller-I bert C. Iloover, food administrator, be-I be-I i'orc sailing for Kurope today to dis-I dis-I cuss food measures for the relief of I starving populations. I "There has been a great deal of unnecessary un-necessary furore in this country about feeding the Germans," he said. "We are not worrying about the Germans. I They can take care of themselves if given a chance, but the water tight blockade has got to be abandoned. If-there If-there is an advance relaxation of the blockade Germany can get food, fisli from Norway and Sweden, grain from Argentina, but the block Tile will have to be lifted. What is desired now most is for Germany to $et somo sort of stable, basis so she con :iy the money she owes to Franco and Belgium." To Attend Conference. Mr. Hoover said that he expected to be in -London only a day or two. Jle , will then go to Paris to attend the allied al-lied conferences at Versailles. His work may then take htm into Kelgimn. but he does not expect, to meet any ot the German food ad mi nistrators. Ho expects to return to America by Christmas Christ-mas to confer with the president before beginning his actual ad mi nist ration abroad in co-operation with the allies. Continuing his discussion of L'hiro-pean L'hiro-pean food conditions, Mr. Iloover said: ''Arrangements have long since been completed by which the big allies, that is, France, England and Italy, will be provisioned. This covers iio,0OU,00U people. ' 4 Our first and deepest concern now must be for the little allies who were under the Gerrnau yoke ; they are the Belgians, Serbians, Rumanians, Greeks, Czechs, Jugo-Slavs and others. There are soma 7.1,iUU,.K)0 people' in these groups and they must be s vs tenia t icily helped at once. We have already doubled the stream of food flowing iuto Belgium. Robbery Systematic. 'There is a givat problem in the situation sit-uation of tin enemy people about f0.-niHijKii), f0.-niHijKii), would' certainly approach this pr'ublrm with mixed foldings, having hav-ing been long a witness to the robbery of food from women and children and the destruction of millions of tons of food at sea, and to the misery under which the millions amongst tho big and little allies have suffered under the German yoke. ; ' Discussing domestic conditions, tho food administrator snid that-the regulation regula-tion forbidding brewing a f ter December Decem-ber 1 would not be rescinded, but that it expired with peace. There was enough beer in the country to last four or five mouths, he said. FA IMS, Nov. Hi. Arrangements are being made for Herbert C. Hoover, the American food administrator, to proceed pro-ceed to Germany' and Austria in connection con-nection with the food situation. It is declared he will n to Germany and Austria soon alter his arrival here. |