RELIEF FOR POLAND
URGED BY MR H. HOOVER EFFECTS OF DISMEMBERING TERRITORY. THREATS OF STARVATION. By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright. (Received This Day, 9 a.m.) WASHINGTON, February 29. Mr Herbert Hoover, testifying before the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee, urged support of pending Bills for the relief of war victims in Poland. He recommended that Congress should appropriate 10.000,090 to 20.000,000 dollars immediately for Polish relief. He predicted an acute shortage of food, beginning probably on May 1. and added that it seemed certain that the whole of Europe would be threatened with starvation when the war ended. The estimated cost of keeping the Poles alive during the next twelve months was 40,000,000 to 50,000,000 dollars. He said: “The Poles normally are self-supporting, but dismemberment has taken off surplus food areas. The Russians had taken agricultural areas, while German Poland’s normal population of 12,000,000 to 13,000,000 has been inflated by 2,000,000 refugees.” He hoped, he said, to create a. trustee organisation to administer relief.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 March 1940, Page 5
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