FOOD FOR EUROPE
Sta,—I shall be glad if you can find room for what I conceive to be an important communication from me with reference to the gifts which we may be called upon to make to the various countries in Europe that have suffered from the starvation system of the Germans.
It seems to me that we are not to send them food without requiring some return from them at such time as they can afford it. In our case this should take the form of supplying us with materials, including food, that we do not produce in sufficient quantities for our needs. The assisted countries will value what we send them much more -if they have to pay for it than if we send it without any proviso as to payment. Payment might be arranged to take place in an equivalent amount of what can be produced in this country in insufficient quantities for our needs. These payments, valued in sterling, might be made by instalments in, say, every 5 years and secured by a bond from the governing body of the assisted countries. Such an arrangement would also have the effect of inducing these countries to set their factories in motion to produce the necessary goods for repayment —Your obedient servant. .FAIRFIELD. Fairfield House, Caldy, Cheshire.
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