Correspondence Between President Harry S. Truman and Former President Herbert Hoover, with Related Material

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TELEGRAM The Whitte Thause Mashingtum FULL RATE April 18, 1946 . RECORDS of AMD HOMORABLE HERBIRT HOOVER SERVICE is HOTIORARY FAMINE COMBITTEE 0/0 ABERICAS EMPASSY CAIRO, EGYFT AN NEED HAS DEVELOPED IN THIS COUNTIC TO BRING FORCIBLY AND DRAMATICALLY TO PUBLIC ATTERTION, AS A SPUR TO THE EFFORT, FACTS ABOUT COMDITIONS IN EUROPE WITCH YOUR VISIT AND INQUIRIES HAVE BROUGHE TO LIONT. THEREFORE, I wish TO SUGGEST THE ADVISABILITY OF YOUR RETURN TO THE UNITED STATES AFTER COSPLITION or THE IN CAIRD, IN ORUER TO BRINO DIRECTLY HOM TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE YOUR ACCOUNT OF NECESSITY FOR ORZATER ASSISTAICE FROU THIS COUNTRY. THIS WOULD MAKE YOUR TRIP TO INCIA, CHINA AND JAPAN, BY MAY OF DE UNITED STATES. THE COM/TTTES IN SESSION YESTERDAY WITH REPRESSITATIVES or the DEPARTMENTS INCLUDING THE DEPARTMENTS OF STATE, AND COMNERCE, FELT THAT MITE ONLY SEVENTY-VIVE DAYS LEFT IN THE CURICEST PIASE OF THE PAMINE RELIEF PROGRAM, NOTHING BHOULD BE UNDONS THAT CAB INCARASE PUBLIO RESPOISE IN WAYS TO DRAZ MORE WHRAT FROK TIE FARMS AND TO BAVL MORE FOOD IN BOMES AND EATINO PLACES. ARRANGEMENTS WOULD BE MADS FOR A LARGE MELTING IN Naw TORK GITY AND FOR OTHERS HARRI S. TRUZAN