Famine Fears In India
Sir,—At the time the news was understandably censored; but in the House of Commons, during the Second World War, Commander Kenworthy, M.P., spoke of the Japanese offer to feed the starving millions of Bengal with rice. He said: "If the Japanese offer was a bluff, we should call their bluff; if it was genuine, we should accept the offer, although we were at war with Japan, instead of letting the population die of starvation in Bengal at the rate of a thousand a day.” Posterity will view with amazed horror our present astronomical expenditure on so-called defence and military atomic and space research, while over half of humanity are on a starvation level.— Yours, etc., SETH NEWELL, December 17. 1965.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30937, 18 December 1965, Page 14
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