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Europe faces typhus famine as Red Cross appeals for help
Henry P. Devine, chairman of the League of Red Cross Societies, testified before the Methodist conference that Eastern Europe from the Baltic to the Adriatic is gripped by war devastation, typhus, famine, and widespread poverty. He urged U.S. action including a $500 million aid plan and a three American commissioners to oversee relief and reconstruction.
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Des Moines
Iowa
General Conference
The
Methodist Episcopal Church
Henry P. Devieon
League of Red Cross Societies
Convention of Red Cross Societies
Geneva
Europe
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Adriatic
Poland
Czecho-Slovakia
Ukraine
Austria
Hungary
Roumania
Montenegro
Albania
Serbia
Galicia
Vienna
Budapest
Czecho- Slovakia
United States
Atlantic Seaboard
Mississippi Valley
America
Germany
Greece
CzechoSlovakia
Bethenia
Ceecho-Slovakia
New York
Copeland
France
Italy
England
Congress
Central and
Eastern
Pershing
Hoover
Lane
Commission
Treasury Department
Great Britain
Holland
Spain
Japan
Belgium