Foreign News: From Hunger

No voice in all East Germany has been more bitter in denunciation of the Eisenhower food parcels than obedient Party-liner Hans Hoefs, editor of the Communist Deutschlands Stimme (Voice of Germany). Any East German who accepts the vile "beggar packs" of free U.S. food, wrote Hans, should be severely punished. Last week Communist officials took hungry Hans at his word, fired him for refusing to give up three Eisenhower parcels hidden in his own larder.

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