The recently laid transatlantic cable had failed, and sea travel was undependably slow.
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A complex effort undependably funded ( sometimes privately, sometimes publicly, sometimes by Hoover himself ), unprecedented in scale and wrought with annoyance ( some Belgians, to Hoover's fury, sold their rations to the Germans ), the committee brought bread and hope to at least 9 million French and Belgian civilians.
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