POST-WAR EUROPE

Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 127, 31 May 1941, Page 9

POST-WAR EUROPE

EMPIRE ASSISTANCE

FOOD STOCKS ACCUMULATED

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RUGBY, May 30,

"To organise the transition to peaceful activities will need the collaboration of the United States, of ourselves, and of all free countries which have not themselves suffered the ravages of war," said the Foreign Secretary, Mr. Anthony Eden, in his speech at the Mansion House. "The Dominions and ourselves can make our contribution because the British Empire will actually possess overseas enormous stocks of food and materials which we are accumulating so as to ease the problems of overseas producers during the war and of reconstructed Europe after the war.

"What has Germany to offer on her side? Absolutely nothing. Ai. official of the Reich Ministry of Economics, in a moment of hard realism, published last autumn a statement that the present German rationing system must continue for at least a year after the restoration of peace, and perhaps for several years.

"The demand for food, clothing, and other articles of prime necessity, which cannot be satisfied under war conditions, will," he went on to say, "again become active after the peace, but the production of such commodities will not for a long while exceed the wartime output.

"All this is not only true, but obvious. But if peace brings disappointment and such conditions continue beyond the disciplined period of war, social security can hardly survive."—

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