WORLD FOOD SHORTAGE
•Sir, —To act effectively to save lives we must first realise that starvation and deaths in Europe are the fruits of policy. It is hypocrisy to support this policy and bemoan its fruits. We decided military victory should be won, even at the price of destruction of the physical fabric of normal civilised life. Life could be maintained even amid that devastation if that were our primary concern. But our primary concern is to punish, and we are doing this by further destroying German industry and driving 15,000,000Germans from their homes and farms to exist, while they can, as homeless wanderers in what remains of Germany. To enforce our policies yje maintain large, unproductive occupation 'forces in the midst of starvation. Many lives can still be saved; but it will neec an appropriate change in policy and the diversion of transport and resources to that purpose before any other. —Yours, etc., y . L. A. EFFORD. February 13, 1946.
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Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24800, 14 February 1946, Page 6
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