A 10 million guilder gift from Henri Deterding, in form of Dutch cattle, greens and fruit, for the food-starved nazi’s, has to be seen as a “non-political and exclusively humanitarian” gift.

Six months ago swart, dynamic, 70-year-old Sir Henri Wilhelm August Deterding, Director-General of Royal Dutch Petroleum Co., one of the world’s largest producers of crude petroleum, married his third wife, Charlotte Mina Knack, a German (TIME, June 15).
Sir Henri, who was knighted by King George V in 1920, has for many…