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Show WILSON APPEALS EOR THREE NATIONS URGES CONGRESS TO GRANT CREDIT TO POLAND, AUSTRIA AND ARMENIA. Declares We Should Not Withhold From Starving People of Three Nations a Small Proportion of Our Surplus Food Supply. Washington. President Wilson on January 28, through Secretary Glass, renewed the appeal to congress to grant credits of $150,000,000 for Poland, Po-land, Austria and Armenia to alleviate conditions which threaten "moral and material chaos" in those countries. President Wilson's letter addressed to Mr. Glass follows : "With considerable regret I have noticed from the press that congress is delaying the granting of authority for the extension of prompt and generous gen-erous relief to the stricken portion of Europe, the urgency and importance of which, especially in respect to Poland, Austria and Armenia, you have fully explained to the ways and means committee. com-mittee. It is unthinkable to me that we should withhold from those people who are in such mental and physical distress the assistance which can be rendered by making available on credit a small proportion of our exportable export-able surplus of food, which would alleviate al-leviate the situation. "Though I am sure that you must have explained fully to the ways and means committee the appalling situation situa-tion in those parts of Europe where men, women and children are now dying dy-ing of starvation and the urgent necessity ne-cessity for prompt assistance, I beg of you that you make another appeal. I am informed that through the published pub-lished reports of hearings before the ways and mean committee, the congress con-gress has now been furnished with in. controvertible facts showing the necessity nec-essity for immediate affirmative action. Castastrophe Menaces. "This prosperous republic ought not to bear any part of the responsibility for the moral and material chaos that must result from an unwillingness on our part to aid those less fortunate than ourselves. Merely to husband a small portion of our surplus, we cannot can-not permit the happening of this great catastrophe." |