MEAT FOR BRITAIN

Auckland Star, Volume LXXVI, Issue 201, 25 August 1945, Page 5

MEAT FOR BRITAIN

DOMINIONS , STOCKS Simultaneous Stoppage Of Reverse Lend-Lease N.Z. Press Association—Copyright Rec. 11 a.m. LONDON, Aug. 24. As a minor, if welcome, set-off to the difficulties created by the cessation of lend-lease, the simultaneous stoppage of reverse lend-lease may mean that certain stocks of meat in Australia and New Zealand which the Americans would have received will now be available for Britain, says the Press Association's lobbyist. Britain's supplies of American films, tobacco, and chopped ham will be the principal imports affected. The Cabinet did not receive definite information about the cessation of lend-lease until the last 24 hours. It was generally expected that there would have been a discussion on the most satisfactory method. It can be completely discounted that lend-lease would not have ended if a Conservative Government had been in power. Three members of the United States House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee emphasised at a Press conference in London that President Truman could not do anything else but end lend-lease, as he was only carrying out the law. Mr. Karl Mundt expressed the opinion that the committee would favour an interim arrangement if it was feasible for continuing supplies. It was not a blow against Labour. The food position in the United States was getting serious, the cashbox was low, and the cupboard was getting bare.