The catastrophic floods that struck the Far East Empire in the spring and summer of 1931 had, after fermenting over time, ultimately drawn widespread attention from the international community. Even the League of Nations, existing in name only, called upon nations around the world to provide aid to the Far East Empire.
Yet apart from international organizations such as the Red Cross, only a few industrialized nations possessed the means to lend the Far East Empire a helping hand. The Soviet Union sent medicines and supplies to the disaster zones through the International Workers' Relief Organization; the American government provided funds and grain; the British Government mainly offered funding; while Germany, France, the Netherlands, and others all took related action.
During the early twentieth century, only industrial nations clearly had the conditions and capability to render international aid. As for other countries and regions, let alone helping others, they themselves needed relief and struggled bitterly below the subsistence line.
East Africa, as the world's leading industrial power and largest grain producer, was also the major industrial country least affected by the economic crisis. Moreover, it shared deep ties with the Far East Empire.
Therefore, East Africa was one of the countries whose people paid the greatest attention to this natural disaster occurring thousands of miles away.
Its status as the world's foremost industrial power needed little explanation. As for being the world's largest grain producer, East Africa had in fact held that position ever since the twentieth century began. After all, its own population was approaching two hundred million, and its demand for grain was even greater.
Thus, compared with the United States, East African grain was more inclined toward meeting the needs of its own people, with a relatively smaller share exported. Yet this did not affect East Africa's