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Show SAYS THE BELGIANS SHOULD RETURN HOI Chairman of American Relief Committee Com-mittee Makes Argument London, Oct. 14 Herbert C. Hoover, Hoov-er, chairman of tho relief committee, commit-tee, Interviewed today concerning tho generous American efforts to a'.lovl ate distress among tho Belgians, expressed ex-pressed tho opinion that unless the application ot funds thus raised be under the direction ot persons fnmll-inr fnmll-inr with existing conditions in Del-gium Del-gium thoro will bo Inevitably an overlapping ov-erlapping nud a great wasto ot en. orgy and monoy. "All tho American relief workers should combine into ono committee," ho said, "which should embrace nil tho American committees already cs tabllshed In Belgium and In Lyndon." Mr. Hoover was emphatically of the opinion that tho creation fit concentration con-centration camps for Belgian refugees and tho billeting ot them on tho general gen-eral community In England and Holland, Hol-land, as now is being done, Instead of satisfactorily solving tho problem would "lead only to demoralisation and afterward create a worso situation situa-tion than now exists. "While Holland and England," ho continued, "have risen magulllcently to tho occasion and now aro looking after all tho lmmedlato wants ot tho refugees thero Is no ultlmato lolu-tion lolu-tion of tho .problem except by repatriation repat-riation to their own villages and homes. Our evidence shows that the homes destroyed by tho war amount i reality to but a small perccn:ae ot tho whole. This repatriation wi doubtedly would require consldorablo funds, becauso a largo number of persons have to bo provided for thru tliu winter and the agricultural communities com-munities must ba enabled to sow tho seed for next year's crops. "Tho work of repatriation could only bo undertaken by an Amorlcan organization which would receive not only the cooperation ot tho allied governments gov-ernments but also of tho German occupation. oc-cupation. With the German occupation occupa-tion of Antwerp there is provided a port of entry for the return of Belgian Bel-gian refugees and tor the entrance ot provisions for them. Such repatriation repatria-tion would bo not only tho best thing that could be done for tho Belgians themselves but it would relievo tho other governments concerned." |