RELIEF: Between the Green and Yellow

In China, it would be ching huan pu chieh, the time between the green and the yellow. In Poland, it would be na przednowku, the time-before the new. Soon, peasants in many hungry lands would have finished their spring planting; dreaded months of waiting were ahead. For until the seed bore fruit and the crop was in, how would the peasants and their city brethren live?

Politics of Relief. This week, the men whose job it is to feed the world's hungry millions gather in the fourth Council of the United Nations Relief...

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