Leaders of the displaced Jews in Germany and representatives of the voluntary relief agencies expressed concern today at the statement in the current monthly report of Gen. Joseph T. McNarney, U.S. commander, that henceforth DP’s will be restricted to indigenous food supplies. Gen. McNarney said that because of lack of funds and shortages, it will not be possible to give the DP’s food imported from the United States and elsewhere by the Army.
The relief workers stressed that in his report, Gen. McNarney pointed out that indigenous supplies were weak and getting weaker, with the harvest falling below earlier military government estimates. They said that the already drab diet available to the displaced persons will become drabber, causing further discontent and unrest. “After all, what can you expect when the DP’s see all imported American food going to the Germans and nothing to the Germans’ victims,” one spokesman declared.
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