FOOD AND WAR.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 93, 19 April 1940, Page 6

FOOD AND WAR.

If your Mr. T. ]? Lanpdon, wi.-hcs us to infer, froan Ej eonicwhat oirscure statement, that "iboi t-horta;re'' is a prime <au>e of war, JJ6 wish will have no fruition. AlthwEi "food shortage"* i> one amonjr * <er gro-t number of caucee of conflict, i cannot truthfully he *aid u, at ft been oven a contributing cause to lie va*t majority of wars that have beea fought over many centuries. Let Km think it out. Let him consider the American War of Independence, tfo Xorih v. South War. tie Napoleonic, the Prussian, the South African, tfe (Jreat War. the Russo-Japanese, itj Sino-Japanese, the Spankh-Ameieui Wars. Not one of these irajm kad '■food shortage.* , even in the baekgiouiL as a contributory cause. Most modem wans have been due to greed of ens kind or another, bux the greed for bod is im atnonj the lfet of kinds. He men who contrive wars are usually Terr well fe<L Contemporary photogiapls of Ooering. Hitler. St.iljgjj, Mussolini and Franco hardlv eugynst The idea of lmi «-f f" -d ' P. B. FITZHERBERT.