The President took steps to accept his vast responsibility for the world's food supply. As the Government moved to speed wheat shipments overseas (see BUSINESS), Harry Truman called World War I's famed food expert, former President Herbert Hoover, and a Famine Committee of twelve other prominent citizens* to the White House. Their job: to formulate a program through which the U.S. public could voluntarily practice self-denial as the price of national self-respect.
Said the committee, after its first meeting:
"The facts as presented, showed deficiencies in food supplies that threaten death by starvation to untold millions in other lands. The facts...
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