WORSE THAN PAINTED
WORLD FOOD SITUATION (Rec. 9 p.m.) WASHINGTON, Apl. 18. President Truman told a visiting group of editors that the world food, crisis was worse than had been painted. He said he cabled to the chairman of the Famine Emergency Committee, Mr Herbert Hoover, suggesting that he should return immediately from Cairo to bring forcibly and dramatically to the public attention facts about the conditions in Europe and demonstrate the necessity for greater assistance from America. The president suggested that Mr Hoover should visit India. China, and Japan later. v
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26132, 20 April 1946, Page 7
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