FOOD FOR STARVING EUROPE

Press, Volume LXXXI, Issue 24741, 5 December 1945, Page 9

FOOD FOR STARVING EUROPE

r ?i r ‘ 4-u^ 1 re Pl y to one correspondent ; ? ay tb ts. Stimulate production cerwltwlT 11 18 & e _ .obvious- tiring to do with the world in the state it is—but nS O n G M a f that - less food should be available to us, and consumed by us If our exports have reached the maxi-' mum, as stated, by the Horn D. G. fatVnns"^ 1110 ? j th f extra Christmas rations granted to us will literally ? ntish People of just that amount. Each man, woman, and child e d 13 be , ing granted for MffnW 2’ £ utter eq H al t0 a British ration for three weeks! I again stress self den - * 1 ? t J} at there sh °uW still be heaver great is our increase in production.—Yours, etc., December 2, 1943. LEO.

Snv-Jn proposing to "let them Denmmf 11 / correspondent with the P^' name O-f mankind’s arch-enemy, hjf S P 1 ;, fuJl y his unfitness to share SOUthArn d « g » lr reat nati ° n in th6Se southern seas. No nation that is pitiRnfio ,f ver , ba really great. Our vf/iii i 03^63 , Plain statements about well-off people who will not allow f 0 W t e i, 0^ pass . ion *P Persuade them etc helP tbose m dire need.—Yours,

. , WE ARE IN CLOVER, Ashburton, December 3,1945.

, Sir,—l was astounded by the attltaken by J. Arnold Hodges, in a tme hke this, when fighting Chrissees S are , needed t o win the peace, he fi U,° preacb a doctrine of pacifism. The war that has iust passed was without doubt due to the ule nmio th s 191 1' 18 struggle of the principles advocated by Mr Hodges, and if we are to avoid another world wlr we w *!? e Axis nations who’s who, and do it now. As to rationing ?Vf. Se J ves to feed ■ those who have i j OUr , fellow-countrymen, the whole idea is preposterous. I wonder Y tb A , European nations wouid Ifft a hand to help New Zeaiand if people were starving here, annwifi ours f. lves and our children and build a nation,—Yours, etc..

STARVE ’EM. December 4. 1945.