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FAMINE AND DISEASE PROSPECT FOR EUROPE NEW YORK, March 20. “Europe is fast becoming one of the greatest famine areas in modern history," said Mr. Morris Troper, European director of the American Jewish distribution committee, on his arrival in New York. “Masses of the population in the occupied areas face extinction on an unprecedented scale, in ways which make the Black Hole of Calcutta seem mild,” said Mr. Troper. “Lack of food, shelter and medical supplies is creating misery that beggars description. “Unless help on a large scale is immediately made available epidemics may break out and spread throughout Europe. “The Jews are facing the darkest period in their history. Persecution is spreading in Hungary and in Rumania.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20209, 30 March 1940, Page 5
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