HUNGER IN GERMANY
SIR,—Every day now as one reads one's morning correspondence one is filled with an increasing sense of impotent despair. Here are extracts from a,4 letter just received from an address in London: " I am a German-born British subject—my husband being an Indian—and was until the outbreak of war resident in Berlin. My parents, both over 7o, are still living in Berlin. My mother is in very poor health—she has lost about so lb. of weight since last May—and has only one wish, to see me, her only child. . . . My hopes to ease my parents' lot by sending food parcels which I easily could have afforded out of our rations have also proved futile. . . . I have the feeling they will die of starvation if I cannot soon do something drastic to help them. . . . I hope you will excuse my troubling you, but I know you will under- stand my terrible worries as regards to them."
As you are aware, it is still impossible to send food parcels to Germany or anywhere else on the continent of Europe. If this inhumanity is allowed to continue month after month it will end by destroying us all. Whatever may be the rights or wrongs of our public policy, that the springs of private charity should be deliberately dried up is an outrage. I believe many of your readers- would agree. Cannot then every one of them write to the Prime Minister (to Downing Street, London) today in protest? Surely they might sacrifice the tiny amount of time and energy involved. If they would only do so the result might be to change
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