FOOD FOR BERLIN

Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 21, 25 July 1945, Page 7

FOOD FOR BERLIN

BRITISH SUPPLIES

1000 TONS ON THE WAY

LONDON, July 24,

A hundred British lorries are on their way to Berlin from the west with the first 1000 tons of food for the 900,000 Germans in the British zone. They are expected to reach Berlin tomorrow.

A correspondent says that the food will go straight to hungry people as an addition to their existing rations. A thousand tons are to be taken in daily for the next 25 days. Ultimately all food supplies in Germany will be pooled between the British, Russians, and American authorities to save transport and time. The correspondent says it has become clear in the past week that the strength of the Berliners, certainly in the British zone, has.been failing, and to prevent disease alone the people must be fed. A Canadian correspondent in Berlin emphasises the fact that most of the citizens are hungry, if not starving; nor is there any doubt that they expect the Allies to feed them. "Perhaps," he says, "the key to the German people is that they try to make us feel responsible for their troubles. Certainly the Berliners accept no responsibility for what Germany has done to the rest of Europe. They lack any sense of guilt, and they do not know the meaning of defeat; at least, they show no signs that they do." •