Taste of War: World War II and the Battle for Food (123 page)

258
Blum,
V Was for Victory
, p. 67.

259
Reynolds,
Rich Relations
, p. 88.

260
Ibid.

261
Helmut Geidel, interviewed January 2007.

262
Gibney,
Senso
, p. 145.

263
Ibid., p. 146.

264
Sledge,
With the Old Breed
, pp. 31–2.

265
Stauffer,
The Quartermaster Corps
, pp. 13–14; Bird,
American POWs of World War II
, pp. 4–5.

266
Frank,
Downfall
, p. 160.

267
Reynolds,
Rich Relations
, p. 69.

268
Harrison, ‘The Second World War’, p. 240.

269
Harris, ‘Great Britain’, pp. 244–45.

270
Overy,
Why the Allies Won
, p. 321.

271
Frank,
Downfall
, p. 345.

PART IV THE AFTERMATH

18. A Hungry World

1
Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System, Schedule A, Vol. 30, Case 639, p. 8.

2
Bentley,
Eating for Victory
, p. 143.

3
Dower,
Embracing Defeat
, p. 93.

4
Bengelsdorf,
Die Landwirtschaft der Vereinigten Staaten
, pp. 273–4; Erker,
Ernährungskrise und Nachkriegsgesellschaft
, p. 49.

5
Trittel, ‘Hungerkrise und kollektiver Protest’, pp. 382–3.

6
Black,
A Cause for Our Times
, pp. 23–4, 28.

7
Tooze,
The Wages of Destruction
, p. 673.

8
Cited by Black,
A Cause for Our Times
, p. 3.

9
Dower,
Embracing Defeat
, pp. 45–7; Frank,
Downfall
, p. 334.

10
Duigan and Gann,
The Rebirth of the West
, pp. 23–4.

11
Teruko Blair, interviewed March 2006.

12
Kennedy, ‘Herbert Hoover’, p. 101.

13
Bengelsdorf,
Die Landwirtschaft der Vereinigten Staaten
, p. 270; Kratoska, ‘Malayan food shortages’, p. 109; Kurasawa, ‘Transportation and rice distribution’, p. 58.

14
Bentley,
Eating for Victory
, p. 144.

15
Gold,
Wartime Economic Planning
, p. 458.

16
Bentley,
Eating for Victory
, p. 144.

17
Gold,
Wartime Economic Planning
, p. 458.

18
Eastman,
Seeds of Destruction
, pp. 72–3.

19
Medvedev,
Soviet Agriculture
, p. 135.

20
Smith,
The War’s Long Shadow
, p. 171.

21
Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System, Schedule A, Vol. 30, Case 639, p. 8.

22
Ibid., pp. 56–7.

23
Zubkova,
Russia after the War
, p. 38.

24
Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System, Schedule B, Vol. 13, Case 645, pp. 3, 18–19; ibid., Schedule A, Vol. 30, Case 641, pp. 42–3; ibid., Schedule A, Vol. 29, Case 623, p. 34.

25
Medvedev,
Soviet Agriculture
, pp. 137–8.

26
Volin,
A Century
, pp. 302–3.

27
Zubkova,
Russia after the War
, pp. 40–41.

28
Ibid., pp. 48–9.

29
Medvedev,
Soviet Agriculture
, pp. 132–4.

30
Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System, Schedule A, Vol. 5, Case 62, pp. 14–15.

31
Zubkova,
Russia after the War
, pp. 41–2, 47.

32
Farquharson,
The Western Allies
, p. 243.

33
Hollingsworth, ‘Rationing’, p. 261.

34
Kroen, ‘Negotiations’, pp. 263–4.

35
Oddy,
From Plain Fare
, p. 166; Zweiniger-Bargielowska, ‘Rationing’, p. 179.

36
Doreen Laven, notes on wartime memories.

37
Driver,
The British at Table
, p. 40.

38
Calvin Trillin, ‘Dissed fish. The strange attraction of snoek’,
New Yorker
, 6 September 2004, p. 86.

39
Driver,
The British at Table
, p. 41.

40
Zweiniger-Bargielowska, ‘Rationing’, p. 181.

41
Panter-Downes,
One Fine Day
, p. 15.

42
Zweiniger-Bargielowska,
Austerity in Britain
, pp. 3–4.

43
Duigan and Gann,
The Rebirth of the West
, p. 109.

44
Ibid., pp. 109–10.

45
Hans-Ulrich Wehler, interviewed February 2004.

46
Dower,
Embracing Defeat
, p. 110.

47
Prendergast,
For God, Country and Coca-Cola
, p. 211.

48
Wagenleitner,
Coca-Colonization
, p. 277.

49
Pells, ‘American culture abroad’, p. 77.

50
Terkel,
‘The Good War’
, pp. 206–7.

51
Cited by Bentley,
Eating for Victory
, p. 170.

19. A World of Plenty

1
Matusow,
Farm Policies
, p. 3.

2
Bentley,
Eating for Victory
, p. 143.

3
Gold,
Wartime Economic Planning
, p. 457.

4
Kennedy, ‘Herbert Hoover’, p. 98.

5
Matusow,
Farm Policies
, p. 18.

6
Perkins,
Geopolitics
, p. 127; Wilcox,
The Farmer
, p. 279.

7
Gold,
Wartime Economic Planning
, pp. 444–5.

8
Ibid., pp. 435–6.

9
Matusow,
Farm Policies
, p. 8.

10
Bentley,
Eating for Victory
, pp. 146, 157.

11
Ibid., p. 144.

12
Gold,
Wartime Economic Planning
, p. 450.

13
Miller,
Call of Duty
, p. 120.

14
Matusow,
Farm Policies
, pp. 19, 23–5.

15
Gold,
Wartime Economic Planning
, p. 467.

16
Ibid., pp. 470–71.

17
Kennedy, ‘Herbert Hoover’, pp. 98–9.

18
Ibid., p. 101.

19
Gold,
Wartime Economic Planning
, p. 469.

20
Moore, ‘The western Allies’, p. 106.

21
Hammond,
Food and Agriculture
, p. 187.

22
Britnell and Voake,
Canadian Agriculture
, pp. 166–9, 269–272.

23
Gold,
Wartime Economic Planning
, p. 474.

24
Ibid., pp. 480–81.

25
Matusow,
Farm Policies
, p. 168.

26
Ibid., p. 150; Gold,
Wartime Economic Planning
, pp. 474, 476–7.

27
Ibid., p. 463.

28
Staples,
The Birth of Development
, p. 76.

29
Vernon,
Hunger
, p. 158; Boon, ‘Agreement and disagreement’, p. 171.

30
Ibid., p. 172.

31
Vernon,
Hunger
, p. 153.

32
Boon, ‘Agreement and disagreement’, p. 173; Trentmann, ‘Coping with shortage’, p. 32.

33
Extracts from the Report of the Hot Springs Conference,
http://www.worldfooddayusa.org/?id-16367
; Evang, ‘The Hot Springs Conference’, p. 168.

34
Matusow,
Farm Policies
, p. 85.

35
Vernon,
Hunger
, p. 153.

36
Staples,
The Birth of Development
, p. 82.

37
Vernon,
Hunger
, p. 156.

38
Orr,
As I Recall
, pp. 176–7, 193.

39
Matusow,
Farm Policies
, pp. 89–90.

40
Cohen,
A Consumer’s Republic
, p. 114.

41
Gold,
Wartime Economic Planning
, pp. 463, 465.

42
Erker,
Ernährungskrise und Nachkriegsgesellschaft
, pp. 49–50.

43
Trittel, ‘Hungerkrise und kollektiver Protest’, p. 378.

44
Ibid., p. 379.

45
Ibid, p. 389.

46
Gardner,
Architects of Illusion
, p. 259.

47
Henderson, ‘German economic miracle’,
The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics
,
http://www.econlib.org
.

48
Trittel, ‘Hungerkrise und kollektiver Protest’, p. 391.

49
Wexler, ‘The Marshall Plan’, p. 151.

50
Hogan,
The Marshall Plan
, p. 415.

51
Tracy,
Government and Agriculture
, pp. 218, 223.

52
Kroen, ‘Negotiations’, pp. 252, 255–6.

53
Cohen,
A Consumer’s Republic
, p. 127.

54
Kroen, ‘Negotiations’, p. 265.

55
Bell and Bell,
Implicated
, p. 94.

56
Ibid., p. 105; Brash,
The Hegemony of International Business
, pp. 8–9.

57
Lowe,
Menzies
, pp. 136–7.

58
Trentmann, ‘Coping with shortage’, p. 35.

59
Hobsbawm,
The
Age of Extremes
, p. 260; Tracy,
Government and Agriculture
, pp. 230, 238.

60
Smith,
The War’s Long Shadow
, p. 176.

61
Medvedev,
Soviet Agriculture
, p. 131; Nove, ‘Soviet peasantry in World War II’, pp. 87–8.

62
Becker,
Hungry Ghosts
, p. 57.

63
Mitter,
Modern China
, pp. 57–8.

64
Mitter,
Bitter Revolution
, pp. 196–8; Becker,
Hungry Ghosts
, p. 57.

65
Rasmussen, ‘Plant hormones in war and peace’, p. 291.

66
Martin,
The Development of Modern Agriculture
, p. 102; Pollan,
In Defence of Food
, p. 101.

67
Martin,
The Development of Modern Agriculture
, p. 197.

68
Matusow,
Farm Policies
, p. 111.

69
Short et al., ‘“The front line of freedom”’, p. 15.

70
Brown,
Who Will Feed China?
, p. 106.

71
Martin,
The Development of Modern Agriculture
, p. 128.

72
Blythe,
Akenfield
, p. 260.

73
Ibid., p. 262.

74
Ibid., p. 264.

75
Mira Kamdar, ‘The threat of global food shortages –
Part II
’, Yaleglobal online,
http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/content/threat-global-food-shortages-%E2%80%93-part-ii
, n.p.

76
Farrer,
To Feed a Nation
, p. 129.

77
Ibid., p. 130.

78
Ibid., p. 170.

79
Ibid., pp. 129, 169, 177.

80
Milward,
The Fascist Economy in Norway
, p. 243.

81
Hobsbawm,
The
Age of Extremes
, p. 263; Hardyment,
Slice of Life
, pp. 79–80.

82
Hobsbawm,
The
Age of Extremes
, p. 269; Driver,
The British at Table
, p. 66.

83
Cohen,
A Consumer’s Republic
, p. 404.

84
Kuisel,
Seducing the French
, p. 105.