AID FOR BRITAIN

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26589, 11 October 1947, Page 9

AID FOR BRITAIN

Sir,—Your correspondent’s bad taste in being “ amused ” bv the misfortunes of others is well matched by his ignorance of the facts of his case. As I was stationed in England during the greater part of the war, living on British rations, I am quite unimpressed either by his Anglophobe theories or by the secondhand and dubious evidence which he quotes in support of them. Since complacency is usually indicative of an overloaded table, he can well afford to put his theories to the test. Let him ration himself for six months strictly on the existing British scale. Then, if his vivid imagination is equal to the task, he can visualise having already undergone some seven years of similar fasting. If after this treatment he is not hungry, at best he will have ceased to be “ amused.” I have not heard it suggested that the inhabitants of Britain are starving, though it is apparent that if this was the tragic case nobody could care less than our friend, who is no friend of Britain’s.—l am, etc.. Not Amused.