BRITISH ATTITUDE

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 124, 19 February 1941, Page 7

BRITISH ATTITUDE

Complicated Problem

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i Received Eebrnary 18. 7.;> p.m. I RUGBY, Eebruary 17. The Hoover plan might recoinmend itself if the necessary utensils and food were obi allied in Europe aud paid for witli dollars issued by American banks in Germany and at present blocked by the Nazis. But again, the problem cannot be so easily simplified, for Mr. Hoover suggests that soup kitchens should be established as an experiment in Belgium "to see whether the plan cati be carried out without military advantage to either side in the war." The civilian and military populations iif a country art' now so ditlicnlt to differentiate in tt war effort that consideration of such an experiment must include such factors as the present German use of Belgium as a base against Britain and th<> conscription of Belgian workers under Nazi masters. Ample evidence is available that the enslaved people themselves would regret any step, even actuated by the lies! of' motives, which though seemingly undertaken to help them, would indirectly postpone Britain’s victory and consequently- their own freedom as nationals.