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...realize my astonishment when in your issue of March 17 I find, in a footnote, a quotation from the recent book of Lars Moen-Under the Iron Heel-to the effect that " 'perhaps the major' share of food sent from the United States to Belgium during World War I was diverted to feed the Germans...
...that this statement is an absolute reverse of truth. During the first World War I spent a year in Belgium as a member of the American Commission which was in charge of complete food distribution in Belgium. If there was 1% of truth in the statement quoted by Mr. Moen, certainly both Mr. Hoover and the British Government . . . would have stopped it immediately...
...Executive Committee: Henry P. Fletcher, Ferric C. Galpin, M. Preston Goodfellow, Herbert Hoover, Richard W. Lawrence, Chauncey Mc-Cormick, Dave Hennen Morris, Maurice Pate, Edgar Rickard, Lewis L. Strauss, W. Hallam Tuck, Allen Wardwell. - Lars Moen, an American chemist who was caught in Belgium by the Blitzkrieg, reported in his recent book Under the Iron Heel (Lippincott; $2.75) that scores of Belgians told him "perhaps the major" share of food sent from the U. S. to Belgium during World War I was diverted to feed the Germans...
...York's Governor Herbert H. Lehman returned from watching his 18-year-old son Peter Gerald Lehman graduate from Deerfield (Mass.) Academy, U. S. Ambassador to Russia William C. Bullitt landed in Manhattan on his way to watch his 12-year-old daughter Anne Moen Bullitt graduate from The Bement School, also in Deerfield...
Died. Anne Moen Louise Bryant Reed, 41, widow of Harvardman and Soviet Hero John Reed, onetime wife of U. S. Ambassador to U. S. S. R., William Christian Bullitt; of cerebral hemorrhage; in Sevres, France. Pretty, sharp-witted, she married Reed in 1917, followed him from Greenwich Village to Moscow, became a champion of the Bolsheviki, a close friend of Lenin. When Reed died of typhus in 1920, she wrote for Hearst, wangled the first interview from Mussolini. In 1923 she married Socialite Bullitt, bore his daughter Anne in 1924, was divorced by him in 1930 for "personal indignities." Thereafter...