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Show I WILSON APPEALS I FOR THREE NATIONS H URGES CONGRESS TO GRANT CREDIT TO POLAND, AUSTRIA AND ARMENIA. H Declares We Should Not Withhold H From Starving People of Three m Nations a Small Proportion of H Our Surplus Food Supply. M Washington. President Wilson on H January 2S, through Secretary Class, H tetiewed (lit1 appeal to congress to H grunt credits of $15q,000,000 for I'o- H IiiikI, Austria mill Armenia to alleviate B conditions which threaten "inornl and B material -tliiKis" In those countries. H Secretary Glass presented the presl- dent's letter to the house wuys mid H ii it'll ns committee without comment, H President Wilson's letter addressed H to Mr. (Ilnss follows: H "With considerable regret I Imvc H noticed from the pres that eoUgress H Is delaying thu granting of authority for the extension of prompt and gen-H gen-H oious relief to thu stricken portion ot H Jtarupe, the urgency and Importance of H which, especially In respect to Poland, H Austria and Armenia, you have fully fl explained to the ways and means com- fl ndttee. . It Is unthinkable to me that ") we should withhold from those people ' -who are In such mental and physical ' I distress thu assistance, which can he I rendered by making available on credit "V a small proportion of our export- -rfl utile surplus of food, which would ul- tm lt-vlatu the situation. A "Though I am sure that you must have explained fully to the ways and lD means committee the appalling sltua- la. lion la those parts of Europe whero j meu, women nnd children are now dying dy-ing of starvation nnd the urgent necessity ne-cessity for prompt assistance, I hog of you Unit you make another appeal. J(,! 1 am Informed that through the pub- n' Usbed reports of hearings before tho If' ways and mean committee, thu con- gress Iihh now been furnished with In-"" In-"" T(irtti)V'Ctmnrfacts-' showlng-hc-nect -esslty for Immediate nfllrmatlvu nctlou. Castastrophe Menaces. ijl "This prosperous repuhlle ought not Jl 1o bear nay .part of the responsibility All for the mornl and material chaos that IB must result from an unwillingness on 'im "r ,iurt '" "''' "" 'oss fwtuniito (I than ourselves. Merely to husbnnd 3.N I a small portion of our surplus, we can- I not permit thu happening of this great ' . I -ntastroplie." cc . |
