A DIFFICULT MATTER

Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 37, 12 August 1921, Page 7

A DIFFICULT MATTER

RELIEF FROM THE POWERS.

' PARIS, 10th August. To-day the Supreme Council discussed the famine in Russia. M. Briand suggested that as Ruseia helped the Allies fiiey ought to join America and others in administering relief through the Red Cross. ,

Mr. Lloyd George pointed out that such efforts were m>t>o comprehensive enough. The Red "Cross could not work the loaves and fishes miracle. The question ought to be considered on a large scale. It was not only a question of ■Russia, but the whole world was involved. He did not admire the Soviet Government, but thought relief was impossible without its co-operation owing to 'its control of transport. The official machinery was not a political but a human-, itarian question. Unless the AlKes helped, typhus and cholera would destroy more Jives than the war.

Lord Curzon said that the operations only begin with the despatch ofa'elief chips. They must develop organisation, •which would divide the famine area into districts and prevent accumulation of population in any locality. They must .ration food, carry out relief work, and lestablkh a hospital. He believed that an' expert commission should report at the earliest moment.