NAZI PLUNDERING
Food Shortage In Europe
LONDON, February 8.
"If there is a food shortage in any part of Europe, it is due to German plundering and not to the British blockade,” said the Minister of Shipping, Mr. Cross, in a broadcast to South America. Britain would increase Germany’s dwindling hope of victory if the powerful blockade weapon was re laxed.
In a statement in Chicago, Mr. Hoover said that famine and pestilence were prevalent in Europe and would cause a death list this winter greater than that of the entire World War unless some method of feeding the victim nations was evolved. Mr. Hoover asserted that the greatest sufferers were Finland. Belgium, Norway, Holland and Poland. Concurrently, it is announced that Mr. Hoover has obtained German permission to supervise an inquiry rega"ding European food needs, the results of which will he announced at a public meeting in Chicago on February 16.
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Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 116, 10 February 1941, Page 8
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