MORE AUSTERE EFFORT
BRITISH WAR POLICY
LONDON, February 26.
Evidence is already accumulating of the more austere war effort which Sir Stafford Cripps demanded and promised. A further drastic cut in the petrol ration is to be announced shortly, to eliminate all motoring except for urgent and important purposes. Sporting fixtures may be limited to one day a week. The banning of car-parks and a further reduction of the permissible minimum attendance at sports meetings is also expected, and all sport will possibly be zoned, to reduce travel.
The Home Office, the Ministry of Food, and the Board of Trade are combining to crush the black market, and the Government is evolving a plan to inflict heavier penalties. The Board of Trade is employing "detectos," who will infiltrate and expose "black marketers." The board of depvities of British Jewry has organised a nation-wide campaign to trace "black marketers." Its president, Professor Selig Brodetsky, urging the Government to. increase penalties, declared: "Any Jew who commits such an offence brings contempt on the Jewish name."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 50, 28 February 1942, Page 7
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173MORE AUSTERE EFFORT Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 50, 28 February 1942, Page 7
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