•“…there
appears from a British source
a big scare story in the American
press about famine in the Soviet
Union, with "thousands already dead and millions menaced by death and starvation."
•“Mr. Jones is a man of a keen and active mind, and he has taken the trouble to learn Russian, which he speaks with considerable fluency, but the writer thought Mr. Jones' judgment was somewhat hasty… that he had made a forty-mile walk through villages in the neighborhood of Kharkov and had found conditions sad.”
•“…There
is no actual starvation or deaths
from starvation, but there is widespread
mortality from diseases due
to malnutrition.”