RELIEF: Thunder

In Hunan and Kwangsi, China's sadly famed domains of hunger, 16 million people last week were suffering from what UNRRA experts termed "sudden and acute starvation."

In Washington, B.C., UNRRA Chief Fiorello H. LaGuardia, with a sudden and acute stroke of his bristling pen, halted all but emergency shipments to China.

On the face of it, that did not make sense. But behind the tragic discrepancy of the two stern facts loomed an old, notorious situation; since November 1945, UNRRA had poured $132,250,000 worth of food, machinery and various relief supplies, from fishing boats to water buffalo, into the country. But only...