[To the Editor of the SrEcTATon.] think I appreciate Mr.
Ernest Parke's point, which seems to be that Denmark could make herself self-contained as regards foodstuffs if she wanted to, having done so some years ago. In the event of sudden war, however, she would, in present circumstances, like this country, find her economic life completely dislocated. Not only might she cease to be able to export her dairy produce, &c., but she might be unable to receive her large imports from non-European countries, amounting to more than one third of her total imports. (See Almanach de Gotha for 1923, p. 826; it will be seen that she practically imports nothing from those countries in return.) Denmark's total imports are to her exports in the proportion of something between two to one and three to two, whereas our proportion is a little more than five to four.
All this is, of course, a side issue, but the agricultural problem
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