GESTURE OF FRIENDSHIP

Otago Daily Times, Issue 27346, 23 March 1950, Page 7

GESTURE OF FRIENDSHIP

Food Parcels For Britain

Press Views On Thanksgiving Appeal

NZPA—Copyright Rec. 11 p.m. LONDON, Mar. 22. Among the finest experiences that befel the British people during World War II was the discovery that they had so many and such warm-hearted friends beyond the seas, says The Times commenting editorially on the launching of the appeal for the “ thanksgiving ” fund for Commonwealth and United States food parcels. Stating that 70,000,000 of these parcels had already been received, The Times adds: “We know well that so vast a number cannot have been sqpplied by an easy drift upon the reserves of the rich. Thousands upon thousands of these parcels must have been bought by the sacrifice of quite poor families who sent what they could not afford out of disinterested sympathy for other families whom they would never expect to meet but who were m difficulties and needed a gesture of friendship.” ’ The Daily Telegraph says no gesture of solidarity through the dark years of war and post-war shortage has touched so many hearts in Britain as the gifts of food sent by millions of friends, many anonymous, in countries of the Commonwealth and the United States.