Communist in the soviet union and china. Cspan recorded this event in 2013. In ber rumia, the professional at bard college was educated in holland and japan. Hes won selfawards for his work, among them the International Prize and assurances dean journalism award. The publications he writes for include the new york review of books, new yorker, the new york times, and roothe guardian, wh the guardian recently published his highly learned and highly entertaining review of the exhibitions current exhibition shungia sex and pleasure in japanese art. Among his books are entertaining the gods, religionen and democracy on three continents, murder in amstra dad and islamabad and limits of toll trance and invading japan, 1963 to 1964. In the zero, most of which he wrote while he was a fellow at the komen center in 201112 to the serious envy of his fellows he was so productive, he produced a brilliant portrayal of the world emerging from the devastation and unspeakable horrors of world war ii in
It looks like we are complete. We start this segment in the summer of 1921, and in that summer, soviet russia is the scene of a catastrophic famine, as george nash mentioned earlier. Millions are threatened with starvation and disease. Most of them, as you will see in a moment, i will have a map up, were situated in the volga river valley. The soviet government led by Vladimir Lenin is unable to cope with the disaster on its own, so it is forced to allow an appeal to go out for foreign assistance and at that time, on that day, in the summer of 1921, there is only one man on the planet in a position to answer that call, and that of course is the man you see here. That is Herbert Hoover, as chairman of the American Relief administration, the a. R. A. As george nash told us, since 1919 the a. R. A. Is a private relief organization, relief agency. But i would say really, at least for this part of the hoover humanitarian story, we should say it is quasiprivate. Hoover is the secretary of co
Overseas. We are, looks like we are, completely start this segment in the summer of 1921 and in that summer, soviet russia is the scene of a catastrophic famine, as george nash mentioned. Millions are threatened with starvation and disease most of them as you will see are situated end and coming on the oval g. A. R. River valley. The soviet government is unable to cope with the disaster on its own, so its forced to allow an appeal to go out for foreign assistance and, at that time, and that day, in the summer of 1921, theres only one man on the planet in position to answer the call and that is the man you see here, herbert over, as chairman of the American Relief organization. As george nash told us, the era is a private Relief Organization, relief agency, but i would say, early, at least for this part of the hoover humanitarian story, we should say its quasiprivate, whoever is, after all the secretary of commerce and that will play a role and the story as it spins out in the next few
Thegoing to mosety in, on beginning of my own presentation so that people can head in from the break. Great pleasure to be invited here and be part of this event. It is a distinct pleasure, to be surrounded by so many hoovers. [laughter] like we are complete. We start this segment in the summer of 1921, and in that summer soviet russia is the scene of a catastrophic famine. As george nash mentioned earlier. Millions are threatened with starvation and disease. Most of them, i will have a map up, situated in and beyond the volga river valley. The soviet government, led by vladimir lenin, is unable to cope with the disaster, so it is goced to allow an appeal to out for foreign assistance. And at that time, on that day, in the summer of 1921, there is only one man on the planet in a position to answer that call, and that of course is the man you see here. That is Herbert Hoover, as chairman of the American Relief administration, the a. R. A. As george nash told us, since 1919 the a. R. A.
treated or not treated. there are cries for alvin bragg to file charges against a 24-year-old marine veteran, who put neely in a choke hold after he was acting erratically. this is part of a rigorous investigation and we ll review the medical examiner s report, access all available video and photo footage, identify and interview as many witnesses as possible and obtain medical records. this is being handled by senior experienced prosecutors. here is kathy hochul. it was horrific to view a video of jordan neely being killed for being a passenger on subway trains. i don t care about labeling it, looking at the video, you know it is wrong, no one has the right to take the life of another person. alexandria: kathy hochul and alvin bragg have received backlash. we are investigating this situation. let s let the da conduct his investigation with law enforcement officials to really interfere with that is not the right thing to do and i m going to be responsible and allow them