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he could not hide his anxiety. Romania, he said,
had a couple of bad years behind it and because
of a catastrophic drought, it seemed as if the
harvest would again fail.
Economice distress, tension in internal politics,
and increasing Russian and Communist influence
were apparently the dominating factors in the
Romanian situation. This was confirmed by what we
saw and heard during the next few days. We saw
a number of depressing sights when we went to
study the activities of the Romanian Red Cross and
to inspect at the same time Swedish relief work.
This comprised the feeding of children and,
equally important, the distribution of clothes. In the
military hospital in Bucharest we visited two
pavilions, one of which, under the protection of the
Queen Mother, was very well organized, while the
other was in a deplorable state. There almost
everything was lacking, especially sheets. I promised to
send a considerable shipment of electric light bulbs
of which there also was a great shortage. We
realized the joy with which our clothing shipments
had been received, especially those of the Swedish
Navy, which were changed into Red Cross
uniforms, We could very well understand this
enthusiasm when, in the neigborhood of the Bucharest’’s
railroad station, we saw crowds of ragged and
emaciated peasants who had come from the
country to get food and clothes. They were just lying
there on the pavement hoping for help.
I had expressed the wish to visit those parts of
the country which had suffered most from the
continuous drought, and it was decided that we
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