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...President gave his praise and thanks to the U.S. people, to farmers, millers and bakers, and to Chester Davis' Famine Emergency Committee, which had done much to promote public conservation and aid.* Last week former President Herbert Hoover, who had done as much as any man to spur the U.S. conscience into action, made his final famine relief report in Ottawa (see CANADA). Not mentioned in the official reports was fiery, little Fiorella LaGuardia, head of UNRRA, who had cut through much Government red tape and indecision...
...Ottawa's Chateau Laurier, the only living ex-President of the U.S. sat down to a butterless, breadless, sugarless, cream-less, potatoless, meatless dinner. (He ate cold salmon, vegetables, fruit.) Then he rose before a microphone to talk about food. At President Truman's request, Herbert Hoover had travelled 50,000 miles through 38 countries. Few men except the starving themselves knew so much about food-and famine...
Gangling, soft-spoken Clifford Durr believes that Herbert Hoover had the right idea: "The ether is a public medium, and its use must be for public benefit. The use of radio channels is justified only if there is a public benefit...
...Peru, housewives were being turned away from empty-shelved butcher and bakery shops; if the Government acceded to Hoover's request for a 40% cut in local food consumption, it might well write its own downfall. By the time Hoover got to Santiago, he announced flatly that he expected no help from Chile...
...cornucopia-shaped Argentina, the one great food-happy nation on the continent, Herbert Hoover's spirits got a lift. At week's end newly inaugurated President Juan D. Perón received him cordially, promised help. His reported measure of cooperation: 150,000 tons of wheat...