Evening star., 1946-04-05
Pope Calls on Brazil
And Argentina 10 Aid
In Feeding Hungry.
BY the Associated Press

/ VATICAN CITY, April 5.-Pope
Plus XII called on all nations, par
ticularly Argentina and Brazil, yes
terday to unite in feeding the fam
ished lest hunger threaten the
"sorely needed peace" and sug-
gested limited rationine "in the bet
ter stocked countries" as one means
of battling starvation.
| Declaring in world broadcast
that one-fourth of the worlds pop
ulation faces "the sinister menace
of hunger" the Pope urged the i'm
porting of food to Europe until the
next harvest, distribution of exist
ing stocks, avoidance of all waste
and use of all possible means OF
transportation and food distribution
Estimating that the food situa-
ton will be difficult for at least the
next 16 months, he called especially
on the rich granaries of Argentina
Brazil and other Latin American
countries for aid.
Praises, U. S., Britain, Canada.
The Pontiff, who conferred re-
Gently with former President Herb
ert Hoover during the latter,s fact
finding tour of Europe, said that
lin this great world offensive
against famine the United States
has generously taken the lead" He
praised Canada and Great Britain
also for their efforts.
He appealed to the Starving
masses" to remain calm. and bit
terly assailed operators of the
black market and hoarders for
"hatefully exploiting the misery of
others"
In regard to rationing, the Pope
said:
1T is certain that small, scarcely
noticeable rationing in the better
supplied countries would result in
such saving of food as would afford
other peoples, harder hit by famine
a marked relief in their more urgent
needs.
For that reason we look trust
fully to the states of Latin America
In the past the noble hearts of their
citizens, our dearest sons and daugh-
ters, have been opened wide to every
appeal of charity, to all great in
terests of humanity"
Argentina, Brazil Can Help.
The Pope said Argentina and
Brazil, ''the granaries of the world,
are in the happy position of being
able to re-establish in large measure
the shaken equilibrium by lending
aid to their more needy brothers"
May the conviction penetrate
everywhere that the present threat
OF famine is common danger which
should draw together all the peoples
in a brotherly solidarity and union
such as leaves behind it all differ
ences, all conflicts, all particular in
terests"
The Pope declared that the hu-
man race lis threatened by famine
and famine, of itself is the cause
of ir1calculable unrest in the midst
| of which the future peace, as yet
only in germ, would run the risk
Of being suffocated before being
born.
And yet how necessary is peace
for every people of this earth! In
the face of this common peril there
is no room for thought of vendetta
or reprisal, for lust of power or
domination, nor for any desire of
isolation or a victor's privileges"
Recalls Wars Great Toll.
Recalling the many who were
claimed by death in the war. the
Pope added:
1T is time that we bar its
(death's) way now that we see it
getting ready to spread incompar-
ably vaster carnage than that pro-
duced by the fire of arms.
I'VE must not allow it to engrave
ON millions Of tombs of innocent
children the tragic words of ac-
cusation: The little ones have asked
for bread, and there was none to
Iroolr IN