TWO YEARS OF INTENSE PRODUCTION WILL BE NECESSARY

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXVI, Issue 14570, 14 January 1948, Page 3

TWO YEARS OF INTENSE PRODUCTION WILL BE NECESSARY

TRANSFER OF . AMERICAN SHIPS WILL MEAN HUGE SAVING

London, Jan. 13.

The United States Secretary of Agriculture, Mr Clinton Anderson, today told the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee that America would be able to supply the wheat exports required under the European recovery programme. If less wheat could be used for livestock, he said, exports could even be increased and a substantial reserve maintained. * All this involved another two. years of intense production with record acreages being planted, but after that increased production in Europe should enable American farmers to reduce their acreage in accordance with good farming practice. ‘ 'Food, ’ ’ Mr Anderson went on, “is the key to the recoveiy of Europe.” Until it was plentiful again, nothing could break the vicious circle of underproduction caused by poorly-fed workers.

Mr Clinton Anderson Elsewhere., the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives was listening to the United States Ambassador to Britain, Mr Lewis Douglas, who repeated his earlier evidence to the Senate Committee.

The transfer of American merchant ships to European nations, he said, could save the programme more than 100,000,000 dollars