An appeal to the people of the United States to urge the adoption by Congress of a resolution calling for the shipment of foods to starving children in the occupied countries was made last night by Howard E. Kershner, director of the International Commission for the Assistance of Child Refugees, in a talk over the Columbia Broadcasting System.
Mr. Kershner, who directed relief activities for the Quakers in Europe from 1939 to 1942, insisted, on the basis of past experience, that the Germans would not interfere with the distribution of food rations to the children of Norway, Holland, Belgium and France. The distribution, he said, would be under the auspices of the International Red Cross and would be financed by funds which the four countries have in the United States. No ships needed for prosecuting the war would be used, he added, and most of the food would come from South America.
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