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Message to the Porto Rico Child Feeding Committee.

December 21, 1932

[Released December 21, 1932. Dated December 20, 1932]

THE RECENT devastation in Porto Rico makes the purpose of the Porto Rico Child Feeding Committee in sending the Christmas Ship to carry food to the children of the territory an especially timely and valuable expression of our thought and sympathetic concern. These children are fellow citizens of our country, with an especial claim upon the generosity of our people at this time.

HERBERT HOOVER

[Colonel J. W. Krueger, Executive Director, Porto Rico Child Feeding Committee, 450 Seventh Avenue, New York City ]

Note: The message was read at New York City during ceremonies marking the departure of the Coamo for Puerto Rico. The ship carried food and money collected during a campaign aimed at alleviating conditions caused by a recent hurricane.

Herbert Hoover, Message to the Porto Rico Child Feeding Committee. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/207893

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