STARVING EUROPE
Sir, —It is a pity nothing has been heard here of the widespread demand in England that food be sent to central Europe. Within a few weeks, 60,000 people wrote in this sense and offered to surrender ration points. This was in response to growing awareness that, though English people are tired of the restricted and monotonous diet, it is in central Europe tha # t millions arte dying of starvation. One paper would not reproduce photographs of starving
lancz’s latest pamphlet because they were too- “grim.” Sir Arthur Salter,
M.P., said recently that ther.e was only half enough food in the cities of central Europe to maintain minimum standards, even if it were equitably distributed, and that neither shortage of food nor of ships was the insuperable factor in rectifying the position. We must demand that the obstacles to the relief of those who are starving be removed without delay.—Yours, etc., L. A. EFFORD. February 28, 1946.
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Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24814, 2 March 1946, Page 5
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