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战俘营里的经济组织.pdf
The Economic Organization of a P.O.W. Camp
by
R.A. Radford
From Economica, November, 1945
INTRODUCTION
After allowance has been made for abnormal circumstances, the social institutions, ideas and
habits of groups in the outside world are to be found reflected in a Prisoner of War Camp. It is an
unusual but a vital society. Camp Organization and politics are matters of real concern to the
inmates, as affecting their present and perhaps their future existences. Nor does this indicate any
loss of proportion. No one pretends that camp matters are of any but local importance or of more
than transient interest, but their importance there is great. They bulk large in a world of narrow
horizons and it is suggested that any distortion of values lies rather in the minimization than in the
exaggeration of their importance. Human affairs are essentially practical matters and the measure
of immediate effect on the lives of those directly concerned in them is to a large extent the
criterion of their importance at that time and place. A prisoner can hold strong views on such
subjects as whether or not all tinned meats shall be issued to individuals cold or be centrally
cooked, without losing sight of the significance of the Atlantic Charter.
One aspect of social organization is to be found in economic activity and this, along with
other manifestations of a group existence, is to be found in any P.O.W. camp. True, a prisoner is
not dependent on his exertions for the provision of the necessaries, or even the luxuries of life,
but through his economic activity, the exchange of goods and services, his standard of material
comfort is considerably enhanced. A
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