Evening star., 1940-08-11
dzis Blame Britain
For Any Famine in
occupied Lands
:. = Reich Has No Obligation
!; : To Feed Conquered
: : Peoples, Berlin Says
sy the Associated Press.

s~sEy the Associated Press.
S. s~ss BERLIN, Aug. 10.-Nazis are
sePressing propaganda campaign de-
sNgned to place upon the British
blockade responsibility for any fam
wane when winter howls down upon
sfhis war-ravaged continent.
- - who in England has the right to
rpeak of the necessity on the part
0tHitler to supply relief to the peo-
piles of the countries he has occu-
pied?" asked propaganda broad
caster who uses the air name Okay.
There Is no necessity. There is
no ooligation-neither legal nor
moral"
The broadcast today was ad-
dressed especially to the United
States.
The broadcaster suggested that
Great Britain could avert "a serious
food shortage" without aiding Ger
many by loosening the European
blockade.
Adequate Harvest Seen.
Meanwhile the German press, dis
cusSing harvest prospects, said Ger
many herself was assured an ade-
quate winter food supply and that
German surveys of Balkan crops in
dicate that while they are not rec
ord breakers" they will be more than
sufficient to feed the Southeast.
(The United States Minister to
Belgium, John Cudahy, de-
clared in London interview this
week that near-famine conditions
would fall upon Belgium by
the middle of next month unless
the British permitted shipments
of food from America. He en-
'~' ployed the phrase, "A bowling
hell to forecast conditions else
where in Europe this winter)
Low Countries Pinched.
Okay, the air propaganda, re-
ferring to British statement that
sending food to conquered France
would relieve Hitler of the neces-
sity of supplying like relief to the
peoples of occupied countries, COM
mented:
Now, who in the world ever ex-
pected a victor to provide his en-
emles or former enemies with food?"
(The British have charged
that Germany's armies, invading
Norway. Denmark, the Neither
lands, Belgium and France, have
appropriated large stocks of food
to insure Germany's own self
sufflciency, leaving the conquered
peoples to fend for themseIves.)
German press optimism over
Germany's and the Balkans winter
larder did not extend to the Ger
man-occupied lands, especially the
Low Countries and France, which,
the press argued, are being pinched
by the British blockade.
First Obligation to Germans.
actually independent reports
on the Balkan crops do not bear
out the Nazi optimism for the
southeast. The Rumanian In
stitute of Business Research has
said that the Russian occupation
of Bessarabia and Northern Bu-
covina took away roughly the
amount of grain which Rumania
might have been expected to
send to Germany to supply the
Reich's import needs)
The German press said that Ger
many's first obligation is toward
Germans and, while she would be
actuated to some degree by hu-
manitarian motives, she could not
be expected to be too greatly con-
cerned over the populations which
fought Germany and now face need
because they ruined or neglected
their farms.
England's Turn May Come.
The semi Official Deutsche Diplo-
matisch Politich Korrespondenz for
eign office mouthpiece, blamed the
Allies for difficult food conditions, !"
especially in the occupied Low
Countries and France.
From the very beginning, hunger
was the war instrument of which
the west powers hoped for the
greatest effects against Germany,
the publication said.
Referring to the English blockade,
1t said:
England asks those in the world
who, out of genuine feeling of
charity, would like to bring aid to
the victims of the British war to
harden their hearts. 1t England)
apparently forgets that the hour of
need and hunger also can come for
the English DeODle in which others