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Letter from President Harry S. Truman to Former President Herbert Hoover
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Letter from President Harry S. Truman to Former President Herbert Hoover
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January 18, 1947
ARCHIVES SERVICE" MATIONAL CORDS AND
Dear Mr. President:
Last year you made a trip around the world at my
request to report on food needs at a time of critical
shortage. The result was most helpful in meeting
the acute problems which confronted us.
World conditions this year are not nearly as threat-
ening, but a serious situation in food still exceto in
certain areas, particularly those in Europe occupied
by our forces and for which we, therefore have a
direct responsibility. I believe a food survey by you
of these areas would be of great benefit to us in de-
termining our policy in supplying food or funds for
its purchase. The recent merger of the United States
Zone in Germany with the British Zone for economic
purposes makes the food conditions in the British Zone
also of interest to us.
I should, therefore, like to ask you to undertake this
economic mission as to food and its collateral problems,
and report to rne upon it. It is hoped that methods can
be devised which will release some of the burdens on
the American tax payer.
Sincerely yours.
HARRY S. TRUMAN
Honorable Herbert Hoover
The Waldorf Astoria
New York, New York