FEELING HITLER'S VICTIMS
Stu,—I think there must be many who share the feeling of disquiet that it appears to be necessary to starve the people of Holland, Belgium, France, and possibly Scandinavia, in the process of defeat. ing Germany. It would be worth taking a few risks to avoid any. thing so dire. Possibly Lord Woolton might find a solution. He has in this country an organisation enabling him to know where every bit of reserve food is and by what precise channels every shipload which enters a port is distributed to consumers. Parallel organisations must exist in all countries overrun by Hitler. Might not Lord Woolton be invited, then, to work out a scheme of control under which British and American administrators would be sent to those countries to supervise the system of food-distribution and rationing, so that, under such a safeguard, the elements of food-supply which are manifestly deficient might then be introduced, provided that the supervisors were satisfied that the food was reaching its true destination? The worst that could happen through such a proposal would be the refusal of Germany to consent to it. The best would be the saved lives and gratefulness of many of our Allies and friends.
It would be greatly to the good if a similar scheme might be ready, and announced, for application to Germany. Was it not Mr. Churchill himself who urged that food-ships be rushed to German ports imme- diately after the last Armistice? It may be a rumour, but it is white one.—Yours faithfully, J. R., BELLERBY. it Park Circus Place, Glasgow, C.3.
[The Prime Minister has already stated explicitly that we will do all in our power to feed any occupied country as soon as it ceases to be occupied. To feed it while still occupied would be to he Hitler to win the war, for he could denude the country of its ow. foodstuffs in the assurance that Great Britain would make up the deficiency.—En., The Spectator.]
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