INTERNATIONAL: Bare Cupboards

Its agriculture crippled by just about everything that a hard winter and the perversity of man can do, Europe faces a famine this winter that may well be worse than any ever known in the Old World. No man knew this better than Quaker Herbert Hoover, who 25 years ago had the job of keeping Europe's children fed (see cut). Wrote onetime President Hoover in Liberty last week: "The food situation in the present war is already more desperate than at the same stage in the World War. ... If this war is...

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