New York, Mar, 10, Great Britain has rejected Mr, Herbert Hoover's proposed soup kitchen experiment in Belgium.
The British Embassy last night released a statement on the subject saying. "The British Government is satisfied that relief of countries in enemy occupation would, whatever the conditions might be, postpone the day of victory."
The British Government, the statement adds, has felt obliged "to reaffirm, its determination not to permit the blockade to be weakened or undermined by the admission of supplies from overseas into any territory under enemy control."
It would be "false humanitarianism," the statement asserts, Mr, Hoover issued a reply simultaneously re-emphasizing sympathy for the British cause, but declaring that the food situation in the occupied countries "is far worse than the British statement would seem to me dicate."
He felt that it "is no false humanity which saves the lives of countless chiláren."—Reuter.
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