The war cabinet rejected requests for food aid when Mountbatten requested them. The cabinet was far more than just Churchill as would be seen from released Cabinet papers.
You can't take that in peace time isolation. This was at a time when Britain was losing hundreds of thousands of tons of shipping in the North Atlantic and Burma had just fallen - leading to many Japanese attacks in the Bay of Bengal and putting Bengal right on the front with Japan.
Much of the famine was the direct result of internal trade restrictions by the Indian states put up after the fall of Burma. I don't know too much of the background to that so can't comment more.
If you're going to criticise at least pick on his actual flaws or mistakes.
Personally responsible?
The war cabinet rejected requests for food aid when Mountbatten requested them. The cabinet was far more than just Churchill as would be seen from released Cabinet papers.
You can't take that in peace time isolation. This was at a time when Britain was losing hundreds of thousands of tons of shipping in the North Atlantic and Burma had just fallen - leading to many Japanese attacks in the Bay of Bengal and putting Bengal right on the front with Japan.
Much of the famine was the direct result of internal trade restrictions by the Indian states put up after the fall of Burma. I don't know too much of the background to that so can't comment more.
If you're going to criticise at least pick on his actual flaws or mistakes.