XPost: alt.politics, alt.politics.socialism, alt.anarchism   
   From: bowman@montana.com   
      
   James A. Donald wrote:   
      
   > Japanese produced that famine, not the British.  It was   
   > a war famine, as I said, in the last hundred years, all   
   > really serious famines were produced by war or   
   > socialism.   
      
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_famine_of_1943   
      
   There were many factors involved, but the Japanese neither destroyed arable   
   land, defoliated the area, or directly interfered with the mechanisms of   
   distribution.   
      
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