A NATIONAL POLICY
SIR,—In his letter published in The Spectator of October 15th Mr. A. F. Robertson expresses great anxiety at the prospect of being asked to make continued sacrifices after the war in order that the starving peoples of Europe may be fed. If he feels our present rations to be inadequate to the point of constituting -a " sacrifice " it would perhaps comfort him to think that people accustomed to watching their children starve on the rations given in that admirable and objective survey published by the Save the Children Fund, Children in Bondage, will not be exacting and would no doubt be grateful for what we could spare after returning to unrestricted supplies.
On the other hand it may be well to remember that the relatives and compatriots of these people who have escaped and are carrying on resistance here may tend to misinterpret the high motives which prompted him to write and take his letter as another example of that grossly selfish unimaginativeness of the British which made them so indifferent to the troubles of China, Abyssinia, Austria and Czecho-Slovakia that Hitler was able to prepare and nearly to win this war.—Yours faithfully, E. W. LAWFORD.
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