THE AFTERMATH

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 13772, 15 October 1942, Page 6

THE AFTERMATH

WHAT WILL FOLLOW WAR “How will the war come to an end? You will not set an explosion in Germany. The Germans will be too bewildered, too tired, too depressed. You will get some workmen in the Ruhr putting down their tools and refusing to go on. or some regiment throwing down their rifles and saying they are not going to fight. You will get a sudden disappearance of authority. Then you will have an appalling period of atrocities while people, not unnaturally, get their own back on their own quislings and on the German officials who have backed them up. Then hunger will come along, and the only two countries —because Russia, too. will be hungrey—which can supply food will be this country and the United States ,and if you are supplying the food to Europe .that must imply the control of communications and to some extent the control of the Governments which control those communications, so that when the war comes to an end, we may have a period only of a few months, no doubt, when this country, in spite of the fact of its being a debtor country, will have a greater influence on affairs in Europe than it could ever have hoped to have when the war began. I pray to God that when that time comes we shall not be found wanting.”—Mr Vernon Bartlett, M.P. in the House of Commons.