SAVE EUROPE NOW "
SIE,—There are one or two impressive—and possibly significant—features about the spate of " Save Europe Now " appeals which has recently been launched in the form of letters to the press and " advertisements " by Mr. Victor Gollancz. One is that, although present conditions in Europe are clearly more the result of German behaviour and policy than anything else, the appeals refer mainly to the plight of Germans. Another is that, although special sympathy is perhaps rightly elicited for the eight or nine million Germans expelled from the east, there is no suggestion that this tragedy is due to Russian or to Russian-inspired policy, and that steps should therefore be taken to prevent any extension of this policy of mass- expulsion before relief-measures can hope to succeed. Yet another omis- sion is that those British citizens who respond by surrendering a part of their rations must surely also pledge themselves not to replace these " sacrifices " by eating rationed goods in catering establishments—or even, indeed, by eating more unrationed goods : otherwise a small section of the population would, of course, be depleting national supplies against the will of the great majority. Nor, for that matter, is there any suggestion that concerted international action—through U.N.R.R.A., which does not seem to do a lot otherwise—might be infinitely more effective as a remedy.
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