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Feeding Liberated Countries and Nutrition Education, January 23, 1943
Pages 162-164

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... Miss Maria Babicka, of the Polish Inflation Center, reported that the educated and professional classes in Poland are being slowly starved, and the masses are reduced to slavery. Little is known of the food situation in the eastern part of Poland, although the people living there are believed to be in dire straits.
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From page 163...
... Phipard, of the Bureau of Human Nutrition and Home Economics, United States Department of Agriculture, described the problems to be met in planning for longer-time feeding in the liberated countries, namely, estimating carefully the food requirements of each country and planning for the accumulation of food supplies to meet the requirements. Should no food be available in a liberated country, a complete maintenance ration can be built around grain products which are abundant in this country, supplemented by smaller amounts of other types of food.
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From page 164...
... Each of the speakers describing the situation in other countries repeatedly stressed the importance of sending not only food for relief, but the means of starting food production in every country, so that each could become selfsufficient in the shortest possible time. The effect on American morale was also emphasized, that whereas after the last war we sent surplus food, after this one we will not have any surplus, and the American people may resist the task of feeding the whole world as too big and impossible.
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