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...American came to India last week not to lecture but to listen. In the famine-stricken provinces of Madras and Mysore, Herbert Hoover rode over chokingly dusty roads past rocky farmland and dried-up streams. The coal-black natives crowded around his car. "One family here lives on four to eight annas' (8? to 16?) worth of grain a week," they told him. "We are now eating only one meal every two days...
...Said Hoover in his report on India: "Most districts are on the edge of a precipice. It is impossible to hazard what the death toll might...
...appalling responsibilities of victory had come to be represented by one word. "Bread," said Herbert Hoover in Cairo last week, "has a reality as the symbol of life as never before in history. ... To reduce the bread ration has become a symbol of calamity...
...Long? Herbert Hoover said last week that this crisis was unique in history because it had "a definite terminal date . . . the arrival of the next harvest." That was probable, but by no means certain. This present crisis could only be met by reducing the stocks of the surplus countries. If 1946 harvests were plentiful or even up to the prewar norm, the world would get through to the 1947 harvest, although at a lower level of subsistence than before the war. (Strange as it seemed, after all the killing, there were 100 million more people in the world...
Even the charge that Stalin poisoned Lenin is linked to the fact that during the Purge trials Stalin convicted his NKVD chief, Henry Yagoda, of poisoning Novelist Maxim Gorky and Soviet Control Commission Chairman Valerian Kuibyshev (as if President Truman were to charge FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover with poisoning the late Will Rogers and Chester Bowles). And two facts are indisputable: 1) a whole generation of Russian Communists was officially liquidated in circumstances that may gratify mankind's sense of poetic justice, but outrages its sense of human justice; 2) Trotsky was assassinated...