After Adenauers visit. as chairman of the Consultative Subcommittee on Economic and Social Policy. of the Committee on Foreign Relations. I sent to Germany Mr. Louis Marhoefer. of Pittsburgh. Pa.. one of the great philanthropists of our time. and the economic adviser of our subcommittee. to contact Mr. Adenauer and his ministers for refugees and housing. and to investigate the actual housing conditions in Germany. The situation appears to be really appalling. Western Germany. in 1939. had a population of 39 million. who occupied 10.2 million living quarters. Of these. 2.2 million were either completely destroyed or seriously damaged through bombing and war action.
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