EXPECTS TO BE UNDER HEAVY FIRE

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXIV, Issue 14074, 31 May 1946, Page 3

EXPECTS TO BE UNDER HEAVY FIRE

PRISON TO MAKE EXTENDED REPORT ON FOOD MISSIONS

If NATIONS HAVE DONE LITTLE TO HELP WORLD SITUATION

,«ta OF FORMER MINISTER DURING DEBATE ,w IN LORDS

London, May 30. British Foreign Secretary (Mr Bevin) is .on Tuesday en a two-days’ House of Commons debate on Foreign Ws To-morrow there is to be a debate on the world food ion and Mr Herbert Morrison has stated that he expects he under heavy fire, as he put it, regarding his recent rL s to Washington and Ottawa. He therefore proposes to kl an extended report. * In the House of Lords a food debate has already been held . r o rd Llewellin, a former Food Minister, said the Combined ta Board would be made too cumbersome if, as proposed, 20 'tons were brought in as members. s3 g e declared that many of these nations have done little to In the world fosd situation. None of the South American "tries have cut down their consurantion. All the United f t L g should come down to something like the British lewd J re our own people are asked to restrict themselves still

r iorcl Charwell said that Britain was 'entitled, before being I yto send more food, to press the Combined Food Board +o Va exact figures of the needs of the hungry countries. He ’ ntioned Mr‘Herbert Hoover’s estimate that Europe needed !er 8 000,000 tons of wheat up to the end of September. L amount, Lord Charwell added, would be enough for 10000,000 people who had nothing: elds to live on. Did any Jjjend that there were that number of people in Europe withReclying for the Government Lord said be shared, ile criticism of Lord Charwell. It was a fact that they rare l y ithesame groin) of figures on the same subject. “One someL wonders,” he said, “whether food claims put forward we been mixed with political as well as economic motives.” The House passed a resolution that Britain’s standard of |vj n g should not he further reduced but should be improved ..speedily as possible. It is announced in Moscow that the rationing’ of bread and [jel in Russia is to end in the autumn.