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  • 13 - Sacrifice

  • from Part II - Saviors
  • Zachary Shore, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California
  • Book:
    This Is Not Who We Are
    Published online:
    19 January 2023
    Print publication:
    19 January 2023, pp 184-201

  • Summary

    As Hoover toured the devastated lands of Europe and Asia, Truman described the steps that America was taking to address the crisis, sending one million tons of wheat each month to Europe and Asia. It was drawing down its reserves of wheat still further. He urged every American to reduce their own consumption of food, particularly bread, fats, and oils, as these were essential to the effort. He asserted that we would all be better off, not just physically, but spiritually as well, if we ate less. And in a show of solidarity with the suffering peoples around the world, he asked Americans for just two days a week to reduce their consumption to the level of the average person in the famine-stricken lands. Chapter 13 recounts America’s initial measures to sacrifice on behalf of strangers overseas.