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Register of the United States President's Famine Emergency Committee Records, 1946-1947
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Title: United States President's Famine Emergency Committee Records,
Date (inclusive): 1946-1947
Collection Number: XX177
Creator:
United States. President's Famine Emergency Committee
Collection Size:
31 manuscript boxes, 2 card file boxes, 2 envelopes
(13 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Abstract: Correspondence, reports, notes, and clippings, relating to food conservation in the United States and to famine conditions
throughout the world. Includes memoranda and diaries of Herbert Hoover, honorary chairman of the committee.
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Archives
Language:
English.
Boxes 1-33 closed. Microfilm use copy available. Reels 29-31 and Boxes 31-33 may not be used without written permission of
the trustees of the Hoover Foundation.
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Also available on microfilm (31 reels).
[Identification of item], United States President's Famine Emergency Committee Records,
[Box no.], Hoover Institution Archives.
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives.
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the collection in Stanford University's online catalog at
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of boxes listed in this finding aid.
Scope and Content of Collection
Correspondence, reports, notes, and clippings, relating to food conservation in the United States and to famine conditions
throughout the world. Includes memoranda and diaries of Herbert Hoover, honorary chairman of the committee.
Famines
Food conservation
Food supply
International relief
World War, 1939-1945
World War, 1939-1945--Civilian relief
United States--Foreign relations
The Famine Emergency Committee was established on March 1, 1946, by President Harry S.
Truman for the purpose of aiding the fight against world famine. Herbert Hoover was named
Honorary Chairman and Chester Davis, a St. Louis banker, was named Chairman. Together
with the Department of Agriculture, the Committee sponsored world-wide food missions that
sent Herbert Hoover to the governments of all important nations to enlist and coordinate
them in a world front against famine.
Thirty-eight countries and states were visited: Great Britain, France, Italy, the
Vatican, Germany, Austria, Belgium, Holland, Switzerland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden,
Finland, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Greece, Egypt, Iraq, India, Thailand, the
Philippines, China, Korea, Japan, Hawaii, Canada, Mexico, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador,
Peru, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, Venezuela, and Cuba.
Besides Hoover, members of the mission included Hugh Gibson, Dennis A. Fitzgerald, Perrin
C. Galpin, Frank E. Mason, Maurice Pate, John B. Masdon, Charles F. Delzell, Hugo Meier,
and Captain Hallam Tuck (USN).
(from Herbert Hoover,
An American Epic, Volume IV, pp. 113-127)