Sir: Your correspondent Hr A. Menshausen of Frankfurt suggests that
England is incapable of altruism to other nations, particularly to his own. May I remind him that from June 1945 to the end of 1946 or later, the civilian rations in Britain were considerably lower than at any time during the war, so that in the British Zone of Germany, with its hordes of refugees, no one of the late-enemy, who had done us so much harm, should starve. I myself saw shiploads of flour from Hull being un- loaded on Flensburg quay in the late autumn of 1945.
The blame for this generosity not being well known in other ptirts of Germany rests squarely on the late Dr Adenauer, who as Chancellor more than once publicly thanked the United States for similar assistance to the defeated foe. But one has never heard of any American having less to eat after the war.
C. T. Chevallier
(late Mil. Gov. Det. 909)
13 Clinton Crescent, St Leonards-on-Sea
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