RELIEF AFTER WAR

Waikato Times, Volume 131, Issue 21907, 10 December 1942, Page 4

RELIEF AFTER WAR

ALLIED COMMITTEES’ AIMS PUNISHMENT OF CRIMINALS (Olficial Wireless) (Received Dec. 10, 3.15 p.m.) RUGBY, Dec. 9 Asking what measures were proposed to relieve the shortage of certain necessities in the subjugated States of Europe as soon as they were freed from Nazi control, Lord Strabolgi in the House of Lords recalled the suffering during the months immediately following the armistice in the last war and said they were anxious that there should be no repetition of this delay. The Archbishop of York said he felt the primary question that had to be solved was the possibility of at least one nation being partially exterminated. He urged the Government to state repeatedly and solemnly that when the kpur of deliverance came retribution would be dealt out not only on the cold-blooded and cowardly brutes ordering massacres such as those in Poland but on thousands of underlings who appeared to be joyfully and gladly carrying them out. Lord Cranborne said the immediate relief of the people of occupied countries was exercising the minds of all. There was at present no real sign of any crack in the morale of the enemy and there was every indication that the war would continue for a considerable time. Yet wars had a way of collapsing suddenly, and it was essential that they should be ready when the time came to relieve the suffering people of Europe. Good progress had been made by the Allied Committee in preparing estimates, and a number of Allied technical committees had been constituted to consider various requirements. A committee had also been set up to enlist and organise assistance for the Society of Friends and other private organisations which did such magnificent work after the last war. A pool of the wheat supply had already been agreed upon. Organisations were getting into trim and time was not being wasted. Action after the war was not to be defended merely on humanitarian grounds. None of us could restore our own prosperity if our neighbours were going to be ruined.