AMERICAN GIFT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 April 1940, Page 5

AMERICAN GIFT

FOOD SENT TO ENGLISH PEER MISTAKEN IMPRESSION OF SHORTAGE. EVIDENCE OF SURPRISING CREDULITY. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. LONDON. April 2. One of the best-known Englishmen, Lord Stamp, .has just received from Philadelphia, U.S.A., a parcel of food containing three tins of sardines, a portion of cheese, a slab of chocolate, a tin of honey, and a jar of peanut butter Daventry reports. The parcel was sent in the belief that England was short of food. Lord Stamp has taken speedy steps to disabuse the mind of the sender of the parcel by having photographs taken of London shops packed with all types of food. These he will send to Philadelphia. Actually, retail stocks of food in Britain this year have been 20 per cent higher than for the corresponding months of last year. Commenting on the incident, the “Daily Telegraph” dismisses any suggestion that the food was sent as a joke and says that it must be supposed that even intelligent people in the United States believe that Britons have suffered such privations that they would welcome as a luxury the food that had been sent. The paper added that it had supposed that such extreme credulity was not to be found anywhere outside Nazi frontiers, within which anything was believed.