22 NOVEMBER 1946, Page 16

GERMANY'S EXPORT TRADE

Sta,—It greatly distresses me to think that every time Sir Stafford Cripps gets into bed he puts his toes through a hole in the sheet. May I suggest that, so as to be repaid for the £80,000,000 a year which we are spending on food for Germany, we send her some raw cotton and ask her to make it into sheets and clothes for us? Many other countries in Europe are also desperately short of clothing and are indignant that we have destroyed Germany's export trade. It is time we got the idle hands and idle looms in Germany back to work so as to encourage exports to pay for the food and raw material which Germany needs.—Yours faithfully, 2 Lexden Road, Colchester, Essex M. E. LAMPARD.