There is a better way

Last week the British saw women and children dying on their television screens, and decided belatedly to do something about it. Money and offers of help flowed into the private relief organisations that had orchestrated the publicity. Clergymen and popular newspapers preached practical charity to newly receptive audiences. The government offered a couple of aircraft to fly food to the stricken of Ethiopia. The EEC put a helpful shovel to the maize and milk mountains.