Show 1 HUNGER DRAWS THE MAP I L Famine Conditions Food Tood Shortage famine Point Serious Food Shortage R jg Sufficient Present enl food Supply But Future Se Serious c Peoples People already receiving r r tt American Ai aid p I l jj Unclassified Q DECEMBER 1 19 IB RUS IA 1 I GERM Y POL HO e fRANC h a y dv SEA SA N e z i iM M E D r F AFRICA A food nap map pf Europe today today shows sho s not nut a n single je country In which h the future tu fu ture Hire do does s not hold threat of or serious und and only a small part rt which is not Is-not not rapidly approaching the famine With the exception deception of ot the UI Ukraine only thos those e countries which have maintained marine commerce have food supplies to m meet t tactual actual needs until next neIt harvest and even cn In t tho thu Ju Ukraine with stores st les accumulated accumulated on ou th the farms th there re rc Is famine In ln the large centers of population Belgium and northern France aswell as ns aswell well as Serbia appear on the hunger map reap distinct from the rest of or Europe because they stand in a n different rela rela- Uon from the other nations to the people people peo peo- of the United States America bo barfor Lan bar for tor four years ears maintained the small war rations of ot Belgium and northern France and Is already making special efforts to care for tor their Increased the after needs which h with of t Set Serbia hla must be Included In this plan 1 lan are urgent In the e extreme and must must ha e Immediate relief The gratitude of ot the Belgian nation for tor the IH help II America has bas extended to her during the war constitutes the strongest appeal for tor us to continue our work there The moment the German armies withdrew from her soil and she was established d once more In her hen own S I s seat ut of ot ao government the little nation first t thought was us to express her grade gratitude tude to the Commission son for tor Relief Hellet In ht Belgium for tor preserving the lives of ot i I millions of ot her ps Germany on tho other oilier hand nee need 11 not figure In such a map for tur Ameri Amer- Americans merl cans because thero hero Is II no no present Indication Indication Indication Indi Indi- cation we hall be called ou on at all to take thought ht for the food needs of or Germany UHrman Germany probably can cnn care for tor her own food tood problem If It she Is given access to shipping and aDd la Is enabled to distribute food to the cities with d dense populations populAtion which are the trouble trouble trouble trou trou- ble centers England France the Netherlands and Portugal all of ot which have bave been maintained from Am American supplies have sufficient food tood to meet Immediate needs but their presents serious seri earl ous one difficulties ties The same saIne Is true of ot Spain and the northern n neutral countries coun coun- tries tries Norway Norway Sweden a and d Denmark whose ports have haye been open and who have been able to draw to some iome de degree ret upon foreign supplies Most lost of ot Russia Is already In the throes of ot famine and people there are beyond the possibility of ot help Before another spring thousands thousands thou thou- sands sand of ot them Inevitably must mast die This applies as u well to Poland and practically throughout the Baltic rv it glons gions with conditions most serious la to 1 Finland 1 Bohemia Serbia and Montenegro have hove already reached thet the t famine point and aud are suffering a heavy toll of death The Armenian population Lion tion Is tailing falling each ench week as hunger takes its toll and In n Greece Albania and so serious are the food tood shortages that famine Is near Although Although Al Al- though starvation Is not yet Imminent Italy Switzerland Bulgaria and Turkey Turkey Turkey Tur Tur- key are In the throes throe of ot serious stringencies ID In order to fulfill Americas America's pledge In world relief we will have to export every ton of food tood which can enn be handled han has died through our ports This Title means the very ery least a n minimum of ot tons compared with tons p war exports and tons tons ported last year when we were bou bouby bouby by th the ties of ot war to the Europe allies i If It we fall tall to lighten the black spa spoon on the hunger map or If It we allow a portions to become darker the ye e peace for tor which we fought and bl will be threatened Revolt and i Inevitably follow famine Should 1 t happen we will see In other parts Europe a repetition of the Russian r bade and our fight for world pen i will have w.- w. been ee M in v vain ll r. r 1 h. h r-N r N 4 1 I |