Great Britain, America, France, and Italy have established a Supreme
Council to deal with the revictualling and supply of liberated and enemy territory, or, in other words, to see that Europe is fed. Mr. Hoover is, of course:one of the two Amerioan Councillors ; Lord•Reading and Sir John Beale are to act for Great Britain Supplies have been sent to Serbia and Rumania, for Rumania, once the granary of Eastern Europe, has been robbed of all her stores of corn by the Germans who now implore our compassion. German Austria and Bohemia are reported to be short of food, partly through lack of transport, and supplies have been forwarded to Vienna. President Wilson has given the Food Council invaluable aid by inducing Congress to vote £20,000,000 for the relief of famine, not in Germany but in Poland, Bohemia, the South Slav lands, and the Balkans. " Food relief," he said in his message, " is now the key of the whole European situation and to the solution of peace." Bolshevism, steadily advancing westward, " cannot be stopped by force, but it can be stopped by food." President Wilson applies the old advice, " Feed the brute," to a new situation.
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