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WILL U.S.A. FEED STARVING EUROPE?
THERE
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are thoughtful Americans who are be- ginning to talk of an ugly development that this country may have to face soon-per- hape by Christmas, perhaps before then. The argument begins with the assumption that Hitler is not going to be able to overrun Britain within the next few weeks.
A great many Americana now affirms this belief.
The
They consider that the war
be
to last expected may through the winter, with both sides employing the tactics of attrition, and with Britain concentrating on the blockade of Germany and Italy. British Navy'a first job is go- ing to be, to see that no sup- plies whatever reach Germany or Italy or any of the coun- tries under German domina- tion by the sen. This means that for practical purposes the whole of the seaborne trade of of continental Europe will be cut off (so the argument
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port food. Now there will be no imports and nothing to supplement the hopelessly in- adequate crops and no fodder to keep cattle alive.
Famine in its starkest form will begin to spread across as the famine Europe and grows worse (the argument goes on) two things are likely to happen.
One is that the conquered peoplea under the hammering of German propaganda will turn against Great Britain, be- leving her to be the cause of their misery. The other is that they will appeal to the only source from which food
can
come abundantly; that source being South Ameries and more particularly the United States.
The American instinct will be to help them as quickly and generously as possible.
But then the British will have something to say. They will point out that the most specifle promises of the Ger- man Government to the effect
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goes), that in turn means that as the cold weather begins to grip Europe, the millions of helpless and unoffending
the peoples in
countries where Hitler's armies are rul- ing will either be starving or on the verge of starvation.
Their crops and their live- stock will be not more than a akeleton of what they should bo. First there was a severe winter, then there was the mobilisation which took men away from the fields and farms, then there was the de- vastation and inundation of warfare. None of these coun- trica WAS self-supporting before the war-all had to im-
that food sent from America will go only to the French or Belgians or Dutch or Norwe- gians will be worthless. Hit- ler's policy must be to feed the German Army first, the German people second, and the German victims last. The British will further remind Americs that it has been an essential part of the British policy from the first to reduce Germany and her allies to a state in which the Nazi and Fascist systems must collapse, that the sqlo blame for the condition of the conquered peoples in Hitler's, that he has made himself responsible to them, and that to do for him the job he cannot do him- self is simply to buttress up
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Between these two voices the pathetic cry of the hungry on the one hand, and on the other the stern warning of the British whose cause has be come America's own
American now--the
people will have to choose and (the argument concludes) it will be a terrible choice.
cause
It is not yet certain that the argument in sound on all points. In the first place we have seen no completely satis- the factory information on alocks of food available either in Germany or elsewhere on the Continent. Insufficiency of foodstuffs is one thing, but famine is something far be- yond that. There is not much doubt that Norway, Denmark, Poland, Holland, Belgium and France, not to mention the Balkans and Switzerland and Germany and Italy them- selves, will be in dire want this winter. President Hoo- ver's commission on Polish Relief has satisfied itself that the outlook in the Govern- ment General of Poland, whose normal population of 11,600,000 has been swollen to 30,000,000, in appalling.
Norway's 2,900,000 people who can produce only 43 per cent. of their wants in peace- time are already in urgent need of wheat, augar and other staple foods and cannot even get the fish they used to rely on, because there is no petrol for the boats. Holland's 8,500,000 people want wheat barley, sugar and fodder, and Denmark's cannot get it 3,700,000 people have already, according to a report this week, been forced to slaughter 50 per cent. of their livestock and send it to Germany.
Belgium, which in the best of times can produce barely half of the food it needs, has been laid waste and is in a desperate plight.
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Another report from the Balkana saya that these neu- tral countries have been stripped of food by Germany, Information from any country where Hitler in possession ja unreliable and incomplete. But what information there is looks bad.
Americans who expect the famine within a few mentha or weeks may be right. It la worth noting that President Roosevelt, whose Information has been very good indeed, mentioned the story of the slaughter of Danish livestock to newspapermen the other day and added that if this is going on in other countries, too, Europe was în for one of the worst famines of all time this winter.
Already the impact of the situation on the American Red Cross, which saved Belgium in the last war, is to be seen here. The chairman of the American Red Cross in Nor- man H. Davis, a great humani- tarish whose job is to relieve
suffering wherever it arises and whomever it afflicta.
that
This week Davis has com- plained of the whispering has begun campaign here to suggest that the Red Cross supplies are falling into German and Italian military hands. President Roosevelt in backing up this complaint said that the campaign is the work of Fifth Columnists in- tent on sabotaging the Red Cross work. Davis has issued a statement saying that the supplies are being sent to Bri- tain and to unoccupied France, and that aid to German oc- cupled areas had been limited ao far to Poland and to the Paris vicinity.
In a letter to "Time Maga- zine" this week, Davis writes: "While, of course, no one wants to help Hitler or to lighten bis burden, it would be a tragedy for the children of France who have grown up with a conception of freedom to be allowed to starve," Perhaps that sentence is the outline of the ugly shape of something that is to come.
THE MEN IN 'SAILOR PUB'
By Reginald Foster
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On the South-East Coast.
LMOST daily you read communiques telling how British cargo ships have been bombed and machine-gunned off our coasts.
Every evening in this sea- side town I meet the men oft those ships. They foregather in "Sailor Pub" to swap yarns. Their spirit is terrific.
One man last night was grinning broadly. He told us why.
A few hours before he had been lying flat on the deck of his ship while bombs burst all round it.
"Suddenly," he said, "I felt a clump on the back of my neck-and then there seemed to be so much blood about that I knew I was dying.
"But do you know what it was? It was red ink from a stone bottle that had been blown out of the purser's office by the force of an ex- ploding bomb.”.
Another man in "Sailor Pub" had been less lucky in a similar mishap, During a raid his ankle had been broken by a flying jar of pickles..
..
He was just out of hospital. "I wouldn't have minded if it had been a bomb splinter," he
· said. “But a jar of pickles.
The men off the bombed ships began to chip him all · · over again.
Oil, Water and Blood ONE morning I saw a handful of scamen; brought into a sallora'
hostel, all of them covered with oll and water, many of them covered in blood.
That same evening, in "Sailor Pub," I saw them, rigged out in new aults from a local outfitters, grouped round the plane, lustily singing "Rose of Tralee," "Oh, Johnny," "Toll out the Barrel," and all the other songs of war and peace.
They looked like a party of workmates on a beanfeast.
Sixty-Not Out
AN elderly seaman, aged about 60, was brought ashore and sent to hospital with a severe arm wound, A rough tourniquet had been inade by his shipmates, but when they left him they feared that he would not live through the night.
Next morning he was as bright and cheerful as ever. He insisted on seeing the mate about signing on again.
Bogged A Dornier
A SMALL collier had been hit, by a bomb. Her gun fired as she was sinking. And in the Anal moments her gunner blew the wings of a Dornier. The who escaped with their lives told
An me that story, with pride. body who can get a Doraler is en- vied down here,
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These same men told me how they could see sailors on a nearby destroyer standing on the deck and firing rifles at the dive-bombers as they swooped down masi high, mạnh A More Air Please
„SOMEONE else told me the story of a diver who was at work when bambs began to fall." They sent-a": message down to him that bembers were "about"
He sent back his reply: "What's that got to do with me?" And ho: went on with his job.
THAT'S the spirit of all the mon I meet off the cargo ships: they aré determined to carry on with their job-the job of bringing in Britain's food.
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