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WILL EUROPE STARVE?

The events of the last few! months have completely altered the character of the British blockade of Germany. At the beginning of the year it was possible to consider Germany as

a unit and make certain modi-i fications for imports from con- tiguous countries. To-day the

On Hitler Rests

Moral

The Legal and

Responsibility.

It is not until we turn to the last

The position in fertilizers is sound.

of Bince 1014 the manufacture synthetic nitrates has made the Con- tinent practically self-sufficient in nitrogen fertilizers, which are the most Important. There is a surplus of potassic fortitisers, and a 30 per cent, deficiency in phosphates con probably be made good, in puri "at least, by the normal imports from the U.S.S.R. and French North

Africa.

Grain Stocks

What has been suhl so far relates

of

producing and consuming unit cluding some adjustment of cus-]

edible oils and fats, that we find a to.which the blockade applies la, tomary diots, but unless there is important group of foodstuffs, the with minor modifications,. the a succession of bad crops the marked deficiency. Before the war to more or less normal. conditions. Continent of Europe, almost the total supply of essential foods the Continent produced olives and to the sort of conditions which might and nuts sufficient to be expected in 1941 or 1942. The whole of which is allied to Ger- should be adéquate or nearly so. oil seeds

supply just over a third of its total position this winter is complicated many or accupied or economie- Poverty and autarchy have com consumption of vegetable oils; and by the fact that the 1940 crop Is bined since the last War tof whale oil, supplied from the An- well below normal in most purts of the Continent, due to the savere ally dominated by her.

und Into spring, Inbour pose as the vegetable oils, is added winter Within the Continent commo- make the Continent almost self-tarctic, and used for the same pur

to the imports, the proportion falls shortages, and some destruction by

Aghting. The U.S. Department

estimates the 1040. dities will be exchanged as free-sufficient.

This is true of grains, on which to under a third.

Agricultura The subject of alls and fats is one wheat crop at 34,000,000 tons, which ly as Germany permits, while trade with non-European coun- the fight for self-sufficiency in Ger-

and Italy has concentrated of the greatest complexity, and it is is 'about 80 per cent. of normal con- difficult to estimate how serious this sumption, and while no estimates of trics, provided the blockade many

|deñeleney in the Continental diet other crops are available, it is pro- reasonably effective, will be dif- crop year the Continent in self-would be. The chief edible products buble that they are down in some ficult or impossible. Perhaps suficient in grains; in a normal year made from vegetable and nurine thing like the same proportion.

are margarine, compound lard,

Matters would therefore be seri- the most important effects of it is over 20 per cent, self-sumcient. oils this change, from the military The position in wheat and rye, the and table oils. They and animal fats

two most important for human con- are also extensively used in industry, bus, although not quite desperate, if point of view, are to be found sumption, is even more favourable. chiefly in making soup, but also as there were not abnormally large the manufacture stocks, available to offset the de- lubricants and in

ficiency. Figures on stocks are in- In eat and dairy and poultry pro- on the side of raw materials.

complete and unreliable, duce Europe

with marked success. In

23 good

more than self-of explosives,

Winter

but they

can be verified and supplemented by

Jean de

available

comparing ava

supplies

In re-

cent years with normal consumption.

11 is possible to conclude with some

Conditions confidence that at the beginning of

Germany is now assured of sufficient.

In the years before, the wur it Im adequate supplies of iron and bauxite, but her supplies, of ported a little beer and mutton, but exported substantially greater quan- many other vital materials-oil, titles of bacon, ham, and park. 1

The deficiency is much less Importhe war total stocks of grains in Europe were well it excess of a coal, textiles, rubber, and cer- also exported each year over 200,000 tons of butter, over 200,000 tons of

tant than it seems at first sight for normal year's imports and that they tain minerals have been sub-milk, over 50,000 tons of cheese, and two reasons. The first is that the have not yet been substantially re- stantially increased, while the over 100,000 tons of egra, Shortage Continent hun always relied chiefly duced.

of fodder will make it necessary un fats of animal origin. If we add demands on 'them have become

Grain consumption could certainly reduce dairy herds and poultry, but un

the production and trade estinies of

the be maintained at 90 per cent.. of nor- But the most unless this has to be done on a very in butter, lord, and suct to much greater. dramatic problem which arises large scale production will not be figures for vegetable and marine oila mel during 1940-41, while leaving a

reduced much below normal con- the percentage produced at home curry-over to meet a future concerns the Continent's sup-sumption, and the surplus meat re-

60 per cent. The second reason is evenly distributed. Most were ne- plies of food. Is it trac, as ive suiting from the slaughterings can in rises from about 30 per cent. to over gency. Stocks, like crops, a en

that, above a certain minimum, fats cumulated or have now been seized are not an essential item of diet. by Germany. Almost all are now If she does not have been told by certain peopley use be preserved or canned.

That minimum in fully supplied from under her control. o both sides of the Atlantic,

animal sources-from ment, milk, and use them where they are required cheese, as well as from the more or the result will be local famines. less pure animal fats included In the

That is the crux of the matter. above computation.

The fact that there is enough food not more than

that Europe faces starvation?

A definite and certain answer

"Autarchy" Success

emer-

not

0 or 7 produced or stored on the Continent

is not possible for a number of!

Probably Vegetables are almost everywhere One does not know a local crop. On the Continent proper cent, of the total calories con- to meet subsistence needs, this win- reasons.

duction and consumption have nor-gured on the Continent are provided ter and in the future, does not mean just how effective the blockadeally balanced, and production can from vegetable or whale oils; which that nobody will starve. it merely cations Ordinance, 1916. Bach news as will be; how much food will be be increased. There is a shortage of means that the lass of two-thirds of means that nobody need starve, that in itself cause offset by surpluses or stocks elsc- Hongkong on the date of buttceived in sold to Germany by Russia; how fruits, but it is not large. Orange their supply, while it will cause some deficiencies in some regions can be

publication by

production almost equals consumi-privation, cannot

where. There will be shortages In the United Press Associations, who re-

the Low Countries, Poland, Norway. serve all rights and forbid reputucation much the remaining independent on in years when the Mediter-famine.

The maintenance in future years and parts of France. Whether or not either wholly or in part without previou countries will be permitted to ranem crop is good, and there is aj

of supplies of meat, animal products, they are made good depends upon import. Nor can one make ac-

"Autarchy" has

another and to a less extent grains, depends the decision of the Reich. scored

and curate estimates of Continental|

success in the production of sugar.pon adequate supplies of fodder

the war the de- The legal and moral responsibility stocks, or of recent or future where the deficiency in the yeater flenes in fodder supplies was met rests with Hitler, as Professor Good-

fore the war was only of the order) production.

arrangement.

a

surplus of lemons.

is really better.

If

BRUTAL ACT THE heartless cynic will re-

of 8 per cent. The European con- by the import of mulze, barley, outs, hurt demonstrated recently, but he mark that the shooting down

his anti-British propaganda. In of

The statistics are reasonably summer will have to forgo coffer when and seeds for the manufacture of all may refuse to assume it, as an aid C.N.A.C.. defenceless

existing stocks are exhausted, as well cake. The total deflelency in feed to

of embittering Anglo- relations, or simply be- passenger plane by Japanese complete to the end of 1938: teo, which he has never learned grains and cake, however, was only the hope of

and the

position

cause he does not want to use up over- war machines, resulting in the they must be supplemented by to drink, and the third of his tobacco of the order of 10 or 15 per cent: American death of nine people, including incomplete figures for 1939, es- which case deprivations, wile this, since large quantities of home German reserves for this purpose.

sea, but these the American pilot, Mr. W. C. timates for 1940, and guesses unpleasant, will not be injurious to produced grasses, legumes, and potu- he does adopt this policy, and local -

health. The most surprising Con-toes are used as feed. There has famine results, it is important that Kent, is just part of the fortunes for 1941 and subsequent years.ental shortage is in wine, which been some slaughtering of animals the world should know that German of war-a cynicism which is Nevertheless, a careful study of France imported it vast quantilles already, and there will have to be boasts of ample food supplies, while given additional sting by the production and trends to the from Algeria, but in this food the more, but most Continental animals not literally true, are true enough

peoples she has conquered. self-suficient. fact that it constitutes but one end of 1938, modified to take remainder of the Continent is just can normally be fed from domestic to enable Germany, to sustain the of many barbarous-acts-con--into-account_the_factors_which |nected with a war which, accord- have been operating since that

ing to international law, does

not exist!

For the pur-

production.

Introduces you in this article to the

time, does give us an iden, pro- A. J. McWHINNIE bably not wildly inaccurate. of Technically speaking there is the Continent's prospects of

feeding itself. little or no difference between deliberately shooting down an poses of this study the Continent is taken to include all European unarmed plane loaded with civilians and just as deliberately countries with the exception of

U.S.S.R., Turkey, bombing civilian populations; the point is, both are horrible British Isles. acts, without justification.

and the

Exaggeration

SEVEN SEAS PATROL

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There was an income tax collector Away on the loneliest ocean patrols | HAVE just come ashore at!

them. There were boys ad northern port from a fine in the world-the Arctle and the mong

North and South Atlantic-they sigh straight from the Universities. There were others whose shore jobs weren't 11,000-ton liner which is now an for a sudden decision by Hitler to much good, anyway. A nilxed com- armed merchant cruiser.

try to sneak his bottled-up ships out jplement.

Jellicoe's Pride

An expression of regret from Tokyo would not have been out Stated baldly, the principal

Once, she carried millionaires to of safe harbours. They yearn for But they've pulled together, with of place. The more charitably conclusion, is that the danger off the East. Now the Navy takes her faction..

the same deals. They share the minded would like to think that general starvation on the Con- through the silence of the Northern

Month after month they have been same disappointment because the hoping the enemy would show up guns, are silent. the act was that of an irrespon- tinent has been grossly exag-Patrol.

Where they played deck games a Month after month they have been

But they sal on, peer- They know that successful bloc- sible squadron leader with hisgerated; but it is necessary to

disappointed.

the fey darkness of kading was always the same. ing through senses temporarily blinded by distinguish between short-run year ago, the Navy's blg.guns are

Northern nights ..watching and the lust of war; but Tokyo has prospects during the, coming) munned to-day.

In Where the strains of foxtrots and hoping. displayed complete indifference,winter and the longer run.

Although their work is "dull" to

Collingwood had to fave up to the while the Japanese news agen- the longer run, during the next rumbus used to float through the

tedlum abbard ship when there was cies did not even report the ocfew years, Continental produc ship, you enr, now hear only an odd them, you'd search the sens without

mouth-orgon shanty from a sailor finding happlar crews,

There is the same matey atmos- no possibility of battle. Didn't he currence; this suggests oficial tion can reasonably be expected off watch.

I went on board, that armed mer-phere in an atmned merchant erulser say nearly 150. years ago that his connivance in brutality, and the to approximate to normal con-

no chant cruiser expecting thrilling that you find in the destroyers. Yet wits were forever at work "to keep attitude calls for condemnation. sumption. There will be

tules

of roaring guns-icebergs the crews are hotch-potches, drawn my people employed both for health's

chief"... The affair is not only a surplus to be wasted or diverted daredevil. Aghts at sen. But all the from every conceivable branch of sake and to save them from inis- tragedy; it is another tragic to munitions industries. Care-blockade boys wanted to talk about the sea service.

Some of them sulted in this ship blunder on the part of the ful planning of consumption and was how YOU. at home were stand-

Admiralty took her over and invited enemy, Japanese militarists, for its only distribution will be required, in- up to your encounter with the when she was a luxury liner. The effect is further to alienate

They wanted to hear about the the men. So the men came, too.

The captain, a rugged, sun-tanned world opinion and to make The first is that of the natural fear women and kids whose spirit Hitler's

bombers cannot kill.

horse-loving squire, had a briét“re-"| China more and more deter-und hatred, of war. Then comes the

They wanted news of the indus-tirement after, a fine record of naval feel," he said, "prouder with mined to fight to the end. protective, whch the "Grst care is for

mand such men, and during the the lives and comfort of their men trial areas where men and giris on service. When the call come, he put every day that passes that, I com-

vital work volunteer to stay at their on his uniform: again, toise

period of waiting and watching they folk exposed to the dangers of wAT. berhes and machines while the adagy NA

are cheerful and contented, in spite There may be other stages not so bombs are falling, clearly marked, but there is one

WOMEN'S DEFIANCE

IT is commonly said that to be sure of success a great 'cause, must women of a nation. There can be Women themselves and their children are flung Into the firing line, sub-

have the devoted support of the stage which is peculiar to this war. Yearn for Action

And didn't Jellicoe, Cominander- 1814 to 1910, show that he appre clated the kind of boredom you get in-Chief of the Grand Meet from

in dwarship which can't find a fight?

and

Naval Reserves or the grey dullness of their lives,"

Its nose out' of "apfety, the Navy in

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The destroyer boys in the Channel So did the commander. He left his Laser office, sat amid the roar, and bustle are getting their thrills. Very soon Whenever the Italian feet pokes proud of the. Navy? To-day the blackness of the Northern patrol, no doubt of where and how the wo-Jected to alarms and denth How, many times have you been of the City, for the bleak allent they expect more to come, men of the British Commonwealth most forbidding aspects. And their Navy has that same pride in you. Sordid, the old Yeomen of Signals, the Mediterranean hus bit of ex- sland in this struggle to preserve passion of anger and hatred is con-

Bien who know no fear themselves with more than 30 years: servicecilement, too.) liberty, dignity, and honour. They centrated upon one man and who

are thrilled by you at home... In the the Royal Navy 10, his credit. But:

And you at home ne getting: know that this is peculiarly a wo-ean hate, like a woman roused?:

enough war in in night to last you captain's cabin, with the commanderus he told ins, me; and the captain man's cause, and that if it fa'lost' | 5:

According to some observers, many on the bridge, in the wardroom, and were, proud to come back."

Then there we omcers and mon.lifetime.dj.KRINTA verything for which, they have.women have come to that stage in down on the mess-decks,. It wa

Dut our successful, blockading ought for generations will vanish which their predominant desire and always the same. The heroes of the who, walled the seas, under the Red That is why every plan to help the rerolution is to live till vengeance sen these days are thrilled by the sign in other ships, but come to squadrons just sail on, plough they're war in which women have been wreaked upon the arch-criminal: bravery of the landlubbers,

the Navyzni, Royal Navy reserves spelling for a fight.

The longer they, don't fun into specially enllated has been carried They no longer fear him. They

They themselves haven't been gets There were business and professional

members action, the more sucessful their through with such energ

dety him, and scorn ha threat to

work is. at the LN.Vecto These manifestations of the war grind them down in the wor of tiny near the enemy, because the men who were called, up, as,

enemy won't come out, I voleit #paks: through? Various stages, nervos,

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