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there will be actual starvation. Food and fuel and transportation
are the great needs. The dissolution of society and its facilities
are shocking.
5. In this atmosphere of disturbance and collapse, atrocities
and disarrangement, we are going to have to work out a practical
relationship with the Russians. It will require the highest talents,
tolerance and wisdom in order to accomplish our aims.
The need for topnotch men is painfully apparent. It may
require assistance from the President in order to shake loose from
the agencies and civilian life men of the quality, character and
strength needed.
6. The wisdom of assisting in the supply of France and
Belgium. They are important and integral parts of our military
system in Europe and thus bona fide entitled to receipts under
our general Lend-Lease policy. We are depending on France and
Belgium for all sorts of facilities and help in order to redeploy
as well as maintain our large forces. These countries also afford
a stabilizing factor in Europe that does not elsewhere exist.
Without some reestablishment of their economic life they too can
very well be torn apart by the collapse now in effect over Middle
Europe. If stimulated, they can afford the one remaining sector
of Europe in which substantially large reserves of food and materials
may be built up. France and Belgium have great potentials which can
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