Food Administrator’s File
The Food Administrator ( Hoover) to the British Ambassador on Special Mission ( Reading)
My Dear Lord Reading: I greatly appreciate the kindliness of your note of June 12 and I shall be honoured indeed to be the guest of His Majesty’s Government.
I do not expect to remain in Europe more than a fortnight as I believe that will be sufficient time to discuss food programmes for next year, so far as they can be determined in advance.
I have a feeling that a personal conference with the food administrators abroad would enable us to co-ordinate our problems of production, transportation and supply to better advantage than last year, which has been more or less an experimental and experience-gaining period.
Yours faithfully,