CONDITIONS IN GERMANY
INSUFFICIENT FOOD AVAILABLE NEED TO PREVENT WAR PREPARATIONS “Things are very bad in Germany —there is not enough food,” said FieldMarshal Lord Montgomery when he replied to the welcome expressed at a function held by the Christchurch Returned Services’ Association. “The Germans get ration cards with a certain-number of calories marked on them—l didn’t know what a calory was before the war,” he continued. “The trouble is that their cards are not honoured. The miners in the Ruhr and other men doing heavy work are not getting nearly enough to eat. “I do not like it, because they are a very virile race of people, and I don’t think it is possible to have anywhere in the world 70,000,000 people who are down and out. I think it is a very good thing that our statesmen are trying to get Germany lifted up a bit. “The Germans are a good fighting race, and must not be allowed to develop their war potential. The task is easier in Japan, where there is a group of islands, but in Europe control is more difficult.’’
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25243, 23 July 1947, Page 9
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