DID ENGLAND STARVE GERMANY ?
[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—It is clearly impossible for any Englishman, however well informed concerning German affairs, to give an answer, from his own knowledge, to Sir Arthur Salter's question (" Did England Starve Germany ? "). Fortunately, however, the present German Government has recently given, though indirectly, what seems to be a very definite and decisive answer.
About a week or so before Sir Arthur's question appeared, the German Government announced that their present army recruits were not only taller than, but of a general physical standard altogether superior to, those of the old pre-War days. As these men would be, I suppose, about 18 or 19 years of age, and therefore born in the last days of the War, or very soon after, the inference is obvious. Germany could not possibly have suffered from the blockade, as has been alleged.—Yours, A. R. CRIPPS. 11 Ambrose Place, Worthing.
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