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recruited rather suddenly from the farms. The result is that they have a place to go. On the farm, with a roof over your head and some skill, you can still get something to eat usually.”

I pointed out to him that the most drastic activation of resentment was among farmers themselves, who had broken open grocery stores when they couldn't get sugar, tea and coffee. I said, “The people in America who have work, and I know this to be true in thousands of cases, invite their relatives to come and eat. They club together and pay their rent. They help the ones that are out of work and in distress. There is an enormous number of people who have no relatives, who have no farm together, but there is just enough of that sharing of those who've got work and those who haven't. You don't know the neighbors in the United States. If you'll come with me through some of these New York tenements, I'll show you right through the tenement that the famili$$es out of work are getting food every day from the families that have got work.” That happened all over the country.

Then Walter Duranty said, “I see what it is. There is still fat in the body politic here. So long as there is fat I guess your people have hope.” He meant economic fat, food, clothes, blankets and so on. If you've got two blankets, you'll give one to the neighbor without. If