Public hearings on the Baldwin-Rogers resolutions urging that the President appoint a commission on immediate action to save the Jews of Europe, will begin tomorrow before the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
Senator Guy M. Gillette, Iowa Dem., denounced today as “unsubstantiated” the charge that relief sent to Europe through the blockade would be “a form of lend-lease to the enemy.” The latter statement was made on Nov. 10 in the British Parliament by Dingle M. Foot, Parliamentary Undersecretary to the Ministry of Economic Warfare.
Senator Gillette is a member of the subcommittee studying the Taft-Gillette bill urging that the United States help send immediate relief to the starving populations of Europe. At hearings before the subcommittee today, Major William W. Hoffman, executive director of the Belgian War Relief Society, told of the British Government’s opposition to relaxing the blockade.
Spyros P. Skouras, president of the Greek War Relief Association, testified that since the Commission of Neutrals had been formed to administer Allied relief in Greece, the Germans have lived up to the terms of the agreement. “It is not too much to say,” he added, “that this relief has saved the Greek people from extinction.”
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