- Title Pages
- Dedication
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Charts
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Acronyms
- 1 The Early Episodes: 1794–1914
- 2 Herbert Hoover
- 3 “But Now Came Famine and Pestilence”
- 4 Between the Wars
- 5 Interlude
- 6 The Birth, Short Life, and Early Death of the UNRRA
- 7 Harry Truman, European Hunger, and the Cold War
- 8 The Marshall Plan Era
- 9 Public Law 480
- 10 The Politics of Food Surpluses
- 11 Kennedy
- 12 Lyndon Johnson’s Food Aid Battles
- 13 LBJ, India, and the Short Tether
- 14 The Nixon Years
- 15 A Global Food Crisis
- 16 The World Food Conference
- 17 Food Aid Under Carter and Reagan
- 18 The Search for Food Security
- 19 The Ethiopia Conundrum
- 20 From Food Aid to Food Assistance: 1990–2014
- 21 Change . . . and Resisting Change
- Bibliography
- Index
“But Now Came Famine and Pestilence”
“But Now Came Famine and Pestilence”
- Chapter:
- (p.33) 3 “But Now Came Famine and Pestilence”
- Source:
- The Political History of American Food Aid
- Author(s):
Barry Riley
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
The end of the war brought Hoover no relief. Now hunger stalked not only the Allied states and occupied countries but the defeated enemy states as well, plus a number of new countries hatched amid the aftermath of war. Adding to his headaches, the Allied governments quarreled with Hoover and with each other over how—or whether—Germany and its allies should receive any food at all until the issue of war reparations was resolved. Tens of millions—perhaps hundreds of millions—of people needed food aid to prevent starvation until their own agricultural production and marketing could resume and populations were at work again, earning the money needed to buy that food as it became available. Hoover would have to convince a suspicious public and a reluctant Congress of the need to feed those who only weeks earlier had been the enemy.
Keywords: American Relief Administration (ARA), Hoover, naval blockade, Germany, hunger in Europe, Versailles, Peace Treaty, Wilson, food aid, U.S. Food Administration
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Charts
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Acronyms
- 1 The Early Episodes: 1794–1914
- 2 Herbert Hoover
- 3 “But Now Came Famine and Pestilence”
- 4 Between the Wars
- 5 Interlude
- 6 The Birth, Short Life, and Early Death of the UNRRA
- 7 Harry Truman, European Hunger, and the Cold War
- 8 The Marshall Plan Era
- 9 Public Law 480
- 10 The Politics of Food Surpluses
- 11 Kennedy
- 12 Lyndon Johnson’s Food Aid Battles
- 13 LBJ, India, and the Short Tether
- 14 The Nixon Years
- 15 A Global Food Crisis
- 16 The World Food Conference
- 17 Food Aid Under Carter and Reagan
- 18 The Search for Food Security
- 19 The Ethiopia Conundrum
- 20 From Food Aid to Food Assistance: 1990–2014
- 21 Change . . . and Resisting Change
- Bibliography
- Index
