Walter L. Bell Quotes
The negotiations required here make the Paris Peace talks seem like a polite school conference.
Walter L. Bell, *, American Regional Director of the American Relief Administration Food Relief Program to Russia, Description of the negotiations he had with the various ethnic groups most of whom hated the others and the pure Russians. In 1921 there was a terrible famine in Soviet Russia, ~1922
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In one of its most effective relief programs, the United States saved millions of Russians in the famine of 1921-1922. However, millions more starved to death and died of disease. The United States had at any one time 200 Americans, under Herbert Hoover, who were fighting to save as many as possible despite some on America wanting to show how the Communist Government was incapable of handling the situation, which they clearly were.
Son of Egyptian President
In one of its most effective relief programs, the United States saved millions of Russians in the famine of 1921-1922. However, millions more starved to death and died of disease. The United States had at any one time 200 Americans, under Herbert Hoover, who were fighting to save as many as possible despite some on America wanting to show how the Communist Government was incapable of handling the situation, which they clearly were.
In 1921, there was a terrible famine in Communist Russia. The United States was ambivalent about humanitarian relief to the leading Bolshevik county while there were Communist supporters in the U. S. who were setting off bombs and calling for the overthrow of the democratic government. Herbert Hoover persuaded President Warren G. Harding that food aid relief was a moral obligation and would do much to weaken Bolshevism. 400 ARA Americans went to Russia and hired over 120,000 Russians to implement the relief program. Rarely in human history have this few people with the resources made available to them saved as many lives as Hoover and his staff did. A number of the Americans died in Russia from disease and those who survived worked under near impossible conditions. Ironically, while it created much good will towards the United States, many including Hoover suspected that the program and the pressure that the Americans put on the Soviet Government officials for more efficient administration may have forced the Soviet Government to learn how to organize much of othe society like the railroads, thus strengthening the Communist Party’s control over the country.
A major issue amongst Israeli’s is to how they should relate to those hostile Islamic nations in their area who claim they are at war with Israel or the Jewish People. This position in effect says that the oratory of those Islamic groups that claim that they are in a war—a holy war even—should be taken at their word and treated as a wartime enemy and Israel should actively attempt to kill and destroy them.
India & Pakistan have been in dispute over Kashmir and other issues ever since Pakistan’s creation. Pakistan has started sever wars, and though she has lost them, India has never invaded Pakistan. Each side has been trying to get the United States to support its position and pressure the other side. When they started an arms race and both sides started to develop nuclear weapons, the reality was that the United States pressured both sides on the nuclear proliferation issue. No nation wants to admit that it has been pressured to arrive at any position. So the diplomatic thing for those nations who apply diplomatic pressure on other nations is to deny that they are trying to pressure the party which they are trying to pressure. This makes it easier for the pressure to work.
