"Only 3% of arable land in the Soviet Union is in the hands of private owners, and not a single tractor or kilogram of fertilizer. This 3% feeds practically the whole country. If the private owners were given another 1/2% there would be no problem with food production. But the Communists prefer to waste 400 tons of gold each year buying wheat abroad. Just try to explain this in normal common sense language."

"If socialism is unable to feed itself in peacetime, when the whole army is used to bring in the harvest, what will happen when all the men and vehicles at present used for agriculture are mobilised for war?"