Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1918, Supplement 1, The World War, Volume I

Food Administrator’s File

The Food Administrator ( Hoover) to the Food Administration Representative at London ( Sheldon)

[Telegram]

Washington, January 23, 1918.

Inform Rhondda, your cable, we will export every grain of wheat that the American people save from their normal consumption. We shall appeal to them for greater endeavor and have already introduced stronger measures and we believe our people will not fail to meet the emergency.

Hoover