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...case for Aid to the Small Democracies becomes clearer and more powerful every day. Salient and unanswerable arguments are gaining more and more prominence, restating and implementing Hoover's idea of "stiffening the morale" of the conquered peoples. Keeping these people from starvation is, they say, a better weapon against totalitarianism than the weapons of force. The failure to do so would, it is claimed, drive the small people into the arms of the Nazis because they will hate Britain and America. This may be putting it too strongly, it is true. There is plenty of evidence of chafing under...
...reasons against the food shipments are hazy, to say the least. British spokesmen answered Darlan by saying that they were willing to try out a plan of relief but that no plan had been proposed. Mr. Hoover's committee stands ready and waiting in America. It is claimed that Britain's effort will be impaired by leakage of food to the Nazis. But the fact is that the Hoover proposal makes allowance for this, and guarantees a cessation of shipments if it occurs; the plan is air tight. Another argument is that it is "not America's business" to question...
...order to increase understanding of the Hoover Food Plan, an impartial round-table discussion of the question will be broadcast tonight at 9:30 o'clock on a Crimson Network program sponsored by the Harvard Committee to Feed the Five Small Democracies of Europe...
...carry out the plan, the Hoover Commission proposes to control the entire domestic food supply and to "use the money and ships belonging to the exiled governments now tied up in this country," the letter continued. "The Nazis, on their part, would agree to take no food of any kind," it added, and if they did not live up to their agreement, "the experiment would be ended both by the British and by the Commission" before substantial amounts could fall into enemy hands...
...Roosevelt, 3 Morgan, 4 Garner, 5 Hoover...