Show hoover d new aon plans to save JAIN hungry in i europe aks imd to 01 try soup I 1 in abrl iIii almu wit us test now MON plans to ol save of JO dill occupied MOP democracies in ill j ocl roin loll 1011 wore wi presented by forauer president IV at a 13 mass meet will plait held in ill bouso auditorium here insul ting supping sup ti night TIT in expressing his bill appreciation to DI the two thousand public bodies who bull supported will this movement to 01 IJU aid aliese unfortunates pull and the gill sixty thousand who havo written letters of jo approval mr hoover XO ex plaines the purpose of JO the commit toe DOI was to 01 expose to 01 the world the gill facts of jo the 1111 food situation tind to 0 raise a voice in III behalf of 30 those tens sual 0 of millions 0 innocent JU men women pull and children now moll suffering from SN want JULI 30 0 nourishment speaking us 81 honorary chairman 0 of tho oil committee on food tor JO tha ott small democracies oti ho made publeo the dill proposals submitted to 01 tha gill if british and german governments a few awl weeks ago to 01 establish soup kitchens in hauglum bd as an initial lul experiment to 01 test 1831 out 1110 whether sheso people can eq be saved without military dc advantage to 01 either side ople there Is 61 nothing jou quill new mou ul in this war jum march IV it al it 0 of hunger mr all hoover told his bill audience the gill consequences of jo great wars aro famine and pestilence tho world war o of 0 qz 25 years ago brought lunil hunger jol to ol three hundred pai million people ul in the gill present laon conflict loll it if sl Is coining taster pull and with more violence JA to 01 day aup nearly coatie hundred million people ire dill on VI rations more drastic except ul in germany pull and great arlt ulu than at the pita end of JO the gill third P year ul in tho DID lout last jum in ill creeping famine the dill most immediate dan jes ger pull and greatest suffering la 91 among the dill seventy million people la ill tha otil democracies which have been overrun by tha dili german armies two A weeks ago the american experts ul in belgium reported ported that juill within a month the dill city pull and town population consisting jo 0 over JOAO eight million people would bo lita without InotT pool food unless supplies wom were brought ul in somewhere oo MEW PROPOSALS in ill presenting gill atie now moll proposals mr plus you noa ear are aware that juill this committee suil has made proposals to ol the gill belligerent governments that juill completely organized pool food control should eq be set jos up for the peoples on no the dill lines 0 ibo lout last war proposals binom have I 1 given to OJ organize prevention they gill are the dill ultimate necessity ing but a distracted world of Is slow mola to 01 believe GADIl and we GM were reluctantly compelled to ol conclude conto conol that it 11 must isma oil bo confronted with ghastly reality before action could bo hoped tor that ivill ghastly reality suit has arrived in belgium furthermore whala I 1 op do not loll agree to 01 the dill grounds tor jo the dill fea rejection of 10 our ano previous proposals yet JOS ji it these people gag are to 01 be saved we om must seek to ol meet those objections q by proving our ino gov case ul la action therefore v few weeks ago we laid before the dill british pug and german governments BAOE the following first that we make an initial experiment ul in belgium to ol test joel out ino whether these people uva can eq ba saved POATO without military advantage to either tille je side ople second that this teat joel comprise feeding only through soup kitchens where the dill people come to 01 loll get their pool food pug and thus there can q be G ott no question of 10 feeding germans third that at 11 the gill beginning wo eta provide tor 10 otto one million adults pue and two oal million children the gill adults glapio 9 to 01 receive halt a pound jo 0 bread pug and ug an allowance o of 0 soup the children to 01 receive special tood TIT in addition including preserved milk this would require about tons I a month of 10 which about otto ono hah would be and otlo one halt meats tats pug and poo food to or children lug fourth that the german governments ern ments agree there Is 91 to 01 be ott no requisition of 10 native pool food fifth llila both governments to 01 give DAIS relief ships immunity moil from attack sixth the whole to ol eq be under the otil supervision pul and checks of 10 come neutral body it Is my belief that juill the gill germans should cooperate deiv to ol secure come breads tufts from continental sources but tor meats tats pull and pool food tor children will there gill are on no sources noo of lo supply on no the continent that must come from overseas and that requires cooperation from the british to 01 pass rout the gill blockade it we 0 can make this experiment work ul in belgium then such a plan an be extended to 01 the gill other democracies deother moc it 11 Is al primarily devoted to 01 saving the unemployed destitute and the children these governments have athla plan under consideration mr hoover was swa o of 0 the opinion i hat it the gill relief of jo these esom countr lea not loll prejudice the british and bould be of jo on no ulus gain to 01 the germans the bill countries benefited eau are not lou charity pull and would defray ut ill expenses the amount nomi iti axa exported pallo rom mo america would simply use our ino food I 1 to those who aust aay it cannot be auno said mr II the gill reply is 61 simple tUll Old ju at least let jai us on try QI it and JI we fall liv that jim ends our ino ilona |