CONDITIONS IN GERMANY
Sir, —I quote from a letter from my mother, who lives near Berlin: “Today I stood an hour and a half in a ?(ueue to secure one bag of potatoes or the winter. Yesterday I waited two hours for 70 gramm (2Joz) of butter, my ration for 10 days. The ration system is really misleading, as the poorer people cannot even buy their rations; the prices are too high. There is no coal, but we have been promised one cubic yard of firewood for the winter. “When Irene had typhus she received a quarter pint of skimmed milk once a fortnight; and she needs some good food now. Having been in the camp must have weakened her resistance.” Why do the postal authorities prevent me from sending food to my people? They do not even allow me to send parcels under the “care” scheme, for victims of Nazism, whose appeal for food and clothing you kindly published some time ago?— Yours, etc., E.A. January 14, 1947.
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25083, 15 January 1947, Page 5
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