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Show 1 EUHREUEF UUIDMSED Proposed Investigation of Food Furnished Resented by Recipient Leader. , r.'.KIS. .tarcb 5.-Krail Frar.qul, a i)if:iiil.fr''jf II"! Bclsian cabinet and at f.no tlnio , h;,lrni:in of tin Bfllglan na-j na-j llonal relief o,i,nnitu-e, announced today mat had "iit ih'i fo'.lowln? n;entmgo to ftiil-d hm-h Senator William M. , t WiiKliiimton, undii dale of .Ma'''M i. ! am siir.i'l.'-d by rcporla that you have )0ve.l an invculs.-ation of the statement tbat f.onie Alrnri'-ail food was sent to BelKlum and tiortltcrii France In such bad .onditiori tliot it poisoned my country, men. How could such lies be received h'jrlou.ly? "Duriny four years of the German ....iil.alixn, I myself was head of the oi vaiiizatlon vliit:h eo-opei-ated within li.-lKiini wllh l:ie American relief eonl-nii.ui.ii. eonl-nii.ui.ii. I have liad dail- knowledge of t h'' '.pialit v, use and eft'ert of t he precious fi.od uiii'-ii .aa'd my nation and the lives of lb" people in tiie Decupled parts of t'nui'c. 1 blllerly resent, and my eoun-trynien eoun-trynien are tilled with sorrow, that responsible re-sponsible men should lend their (airs to (l.ttestable slander against Americans who gave us four years of their lives, strength and talent. I feel that it would belittle their services to deny the gossip, yet it is Impossible to let it pass. "Therefore, for myself and for my country, coun-try, I emphatically protest against this tissue of falsehoods. Seven millions of my . onntrymen and 2,500,000 Inhabitants of northern Franco are alive, which le proof that none starved and that none was poisoned. If I should say more, It would be. to cry shame against those few Americans who would besmirch the noblest thlm? which came out of tho war and tho noble character brought out by the -work of the commission for relief In Itelpium through its tens of thousands of unselfish workers fn America, as well as actually in tho war zone." |