NANSEN PLAN T0 FEED RUSSIA

Meanwhile Mr. Hoover and Mr. Auchincloss had the idea of approachingpeace with Russia by a feeding proposition, and they had approachedMr. Fridjof Nansen, the Arctic explorer, and got him to write and sendthe following letter to the President. You doubtless have seen hisletter to the President.

PARIS, April 3, 1919.

MY DEAR MR. PRESIDENT: The present food situation in Russia, where hundwhites of thousands of people are dying monthly from sheer starvation and disease, is one of the problems now uppermost in all men's minds. As it appears that no solution of this food and disease question has so far been reached in any direction, I would like to make a suggestion from a neutral point of view for the alleviation of this gigantic misery on purely humanitarian grounds.