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FBI, NYC TEPORTED: GURMAN TRENDS (Continued) *Fotcl, where she received the press. Her observat‘one were thus limited to the ridiculously few eights she was able to glimpse et from the nirplanc, at a considerable distance, and during her short ride over a fow strects. According to a dis- patch, carriod by all pevers, she has not spoken to a eingle civilinn in Germeny. Weverthcless, she stated thet the fields avcesred well tilled and that only well fed veople were able to take care of the sofl in such a manner. With no word did ehe mention (even if these conclusfons could be accepted) that Gerneny hes a considerable urban nopulation ae well, numbering millions of recnlc. Farners have elways and in 911 countrics been self-sustaining and much better off, in times of war, than city folk. She ccul4 heve mede the game observations in France. « © « A women in her nos'tion . . - should ehov a keoner sence of resmonsibflity, sll the more so eince her 'stetencnts of fact' contrast shervly with her werm~heartedness, which again and agein hans prompted her to charmion the cause of the unfor- tunate in our own country. She has a perfect right to advocate the policies identified with the orne of Eenryorgoathan, a life-long friend of the Roosevelt family .. « but there is quite vn difference between voicing an opinion and stating facts; it Je here thet Mrs. Roosevelt hee committed e serious . misteke. . « It dan't our job tc remind ire. Rocsevelt thrt she hee quite a reputation to lore — 4f she chooses to Jcopardize 4t by making etatencnts mcch es these, thet fe her affrir,. But for anybody vho, as hns this writer, has travolled for weetts in Germany end .. . who hes visited the homcs of the people end talked tc then, it beccmes a morel obltgrntion to raisc his volce in protest against this sort of shallowness." By way of dllustretion of ite contention that the German people tack food to a degree where eudstrnt'rl portions ef the vopuletion face uvntion, the ®"¥oue Voikszeltung™ reprints rr article by the London "News Chronicle! st correspondent, W411i an orrest, who vng a particivant in a Soviet conducted tour through perte ‘of the Russinn gone in Germany. In this article, Forrest etatos thet the travelling foreign corremondents visited, emong other towne, Frankfurt on the Gder, with a poece tine vopulation of 65,000, now rofuced to 63,000. “hile there, the corresvondents were permitted to Antervi ow Frankfurt's Mayor (fn the presence of Russian officers) who told thom, mong other things, thet up to December first, 3 710 ce ww ee ee ee ee 7