FOOD FOR BRITAIN

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25271, 25 August 1947, Page 8

FOOD FOR BRITAIN

Sir, —Do “Londoner’s” relatives include in their letter the names and addresses of retailers supplying them With such an abundance of food? If so, would he kindly send them to me so that I may send them to my mother, brothers, and sister still over there? I’m sure they would not mind being well fed even if it meant moving to London. Does “Londoner” realise that there are thousands of families that have never received a food parcel and have nothing but their meagre rations. I know that if “Londoner” or his relatives tried living on rations alone they would, soon feel sorry for themselves. I know; I’ve done it. But I would certainly like tp see the look on my people’s faces when they read “Londoner’s” letter, which I have posted to them, especially when they read the part about “bad management.”—Yours, etc., PATRICK MAHONEY (a Bristolian). Hundalee, August 22, 1947.

Sir, —Mr Attlee’s requests to * save dollars and the subsequent statements of Messrs Fraser and Holland augur ill for those of us who have no enthusiasm for submitting to any further rationing to assist what they are pleased to refer to as ofir “kith and kin.” I fee] sure that if a vote were taken to test, the opinions of the working people of this country (who. of course, are the overwhelming majority), it would be found there would be little support for measures reducing the present rationing scale. Of course a vociferous minority, the type that sign themselves, “Red, White and Blue,” “British and Proud of It,” etc.. would reduce us to the soup kitchens of the bad old Tory days to help Britain, but the majority of the people who do the hard and heavy work in this country are hostile to any further rationing cuts.—Yours, etc., J. DENNEHY. Haast, August 20, 1947. .