The House of Representatives today unanimously passed a bill urging the United States to cooperate with Great Britain, Sweden, and Switzerland in the “setting up of systematic and definite relief for all stricken and hungry countries where the need is now most acute.”
Asked two weeks ago about the possibility of sending relief through the blockade, Secretary of State Cordell Hull said then that this Government has been checking and rechecking but had not reached a definite decision as yet.
In February, after a Senate foreign relations subcommittee held hearings, the Senate approved a similar resolution urging the State Department to take steps to relieve the distress of the peoples of occupied Europe.
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