Word: laguardias
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...Fiorello LaGuardia, the new boss of UNRRA, tried to do his bit. After busting protocol in Washington to hurry necessary grains to central Europe, he unloaded all his fiery wrath on those people who still insist on eating pie a la mode. Cried he: "Those people, why they simply have no hearts at all. Belly Americans, that's what they are. Fat, rich, gooey pastry in these times! What we need here is a pastry holiday...
...people had not been talked to like that in a long time. LaGuardia's shrill scolding made them wince-momentarily, at least. But they still paid scant attention to the grave admonitions of Herbert Hoover, from that faraway, hungry continent of Europe (see INTERNATIONAL...
Then, with the observation that "wheat has no political complexion," he sent greetings to Argentina's President Juan Peron. "Here," said LaGuardia, "is an opportunity for Argentina to show its desire to cooperate with the rest of the world." But Buenos Aires promptly reported that Argentina's exportable surpluses of wheat were already committed by sale or donation; that was the reason Argentina had declined to join UNRRA...
...Rationing. But Butch LaGuardia, as well as UNRRA, skipped gingerly over the point which retiring UNRRA Director Herbert Lehman had insisted was not only a moral obligation of the U.S. but one sure way to prevent world famine: reinstate U.S. food rationing. LaGuardia was on safe ground; both President Truman and ex-President Hoover, now touring Europe investigating food shortages, were against going back to rationing...
...grumbled slightly over the one roll per customer they found on some restaurant tables. It was still too early to tell how well housewives were responding to Government and private appeals to save breadstuffs and fats. Apparently it would take something stronger than the strongest appeals of Hoover and LaGuardia to stop the march of starvation...