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Alison April 28, 1993 Plea The world stretches across the floor like spilled water from a dish, I shyly tiptoe into the marble Pacific Ocean without a single sail, Black countries of stone darken the landscape And symbols of wheat dot empty shadows. The reflection of starving faces Accompanies echoes of agony long in the past. But, a gold flicker of hope sways in the breeze. And The Humanitarian holds out his hand.

Visitors to the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library-Museum in West Branch, Iowa, enter through a rotunda recalling Mr. Hoover's half century of famine relief efforts. A 16 foot red granite map on the floor identifies 57 nations and over one billion people who were fed by "The Great Humanitarian"

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