FEEDING EUROPE AFTER WAR

Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23538, 16 January 1942, Page 9

FEEDING EUROPE AFTER WAR

PROGRAMME PLANNED IN U.S.

REPORT SUBMITTED TO

CONGRESS

(Received January 15, 10 p.m.) WASHINGTON, January 14. The National Resources Planning Board has proposed a post-war programme to feed starving European Peoples and a full employment scheme with the objective of vigorously maini/uTln^,. a nat i or!a l income of at least 100 billion dollars a year. A right to work, a right to security, a right to 10 j’ elothing. shelter, medical care, and education, free enterprise, free speech, free movement, and a universal 40-hour week are proposed, amplip rip :B the Atlantic charter drawn up by Mr Roosevelt and Mr Churchill, on which they are based. Mr Roosevelt transmitted the report to Congress as one outlining “some of our major objectives in planning to win the peace.”

FOOD SUPPLIES FOR GREECE

BRITAIN PLANS TO SEND SHIPMENTS

PEOPLE DYING OF STARVATION

LONDON, January 14. Plans are being made by Britain to send food supplies, to Greece, where many people are dying of starvation in the streets. It is pointed out that the Greeks were among Britain’s most gallant allies and fought valiantly. It is also pointed out, however, that the reports of Greek starvation may be exaggerated by the Germans in an effort to obtain assistance from Britain. If food were sent to Greece it would be of material help to the Germans. It would also take up vital shipping space. If Britain lifted the blockade it would be a departure from the principles of economic blockade, which was not to be taken as a precedent. The position in Greece has arisen because of the German seizure of food supplies, and the problem is really one to be solved by the Germans. Mr Roosevelt has outlined proposals for the development of American policy after the war. as laid down in the Atlantic Charter, Through the extension of the Lease and Lend programme, the United Slates will help to feed the starving people of Europe. There will he no time to lose after the fall of Hitler, as already many thousands of people are starving.

BRITISH FACTORY INSPECTED

RUSSIAN DELEGATION

(8.0. W.) RUGBY, Jan. 14. Members of the Russian trade union delegation pow in Britain were shown production works in a north Midlands town, and were greatly impressed by what they saw.

Speeches regarding full co-operation with Russia were made by directors and workmen. One workman who has worked in Russia spoke to the delegates in Russian. M. Soloev, chairman of the factory committee of the Kirov works, Leningrad. stated that Hitler, by his longdistance shelling of Leningrad, thought he would cause production in the city to cease. But for every shell that fell in Leningrad the workers replied with increased production. Afterwards, the leader of the Soviet delegation said: "We have been more impressed by what we saw in the north-cast than anywhere else. We congratulate your workers, who are doing a great job. With this 'northeast spirit’ we will crush Hitlerism.”

CIVILIAN DEFENCE IN AMERICA

MR F. H. LA GUARDIA TO HAVE CONTROL

(Received January 15, 10 p.m.) WASHINGTON. January 14

A conference of members of the United States Senate and House of Representatives agreed on legislation to vest control of (ho national civilian defence programme in Mr F. H. La Guardia. the Mayor of New York, and to vote 100,000,000 dollars for the programme.

COMMANDER OF A.I.F. IN MALAYA REPORTS OF CAPTURE OR DEATH DISBELIEVED MELBOURNE, January 15. In the absence of advice from A.I.F. headquarters in Malaya, the Australian Minister for the Army (Mr F. M. Forde) does not believe reports that Major-General Gordon Bennett, commander of the A.I.F. in Malaya, has been captured or killed. Mr Fordo said he had exchanged cable messages with Major-General Bennett in the last three or four days. ARMY BOXING TITLE IN AUSTRALIA CHAMPION OF LAST WAR COMPETES

SYDNEY. January 15

George Curran, a triple New Zealand Army boxing champion of the last war, is trying to win another Army title at the age of 46. Ho fought for the first time in 14 years last night in the inter-services boxing contests in Sydney and won on points. His son. Jack, aged 12, fought an exhibition bout on the same programme. Curran said; “The Army stew has put me in the pink and I felt like having a go.” Curran fought as a light-weight. His boxing deeds, announced from the ring over amplifiers, brought rounds of cheers from the troops.

LARGER AIR RAID SHELTERS

(E.0.W.) RUGBY, January 14. The Ministry of Homo Security announces the distribution of an indoor slid ter of the •‘Morrison'’ table type, which will accommodate twice as many people. The new shelter is more than lour feet high and is fitted with two beds, one above the other. It is constructed of a steel top and framework with wire mesh panels. The shelters will be supplied free in dangerous districts to householders with less than £350 a year, and will be on sale to others at about £lO.

Plotters Sentenced to Death.—The Berlin correspondent of the Swedish paper "Dagens Nyheter" states that three persons were sentenced to death for complicity in a Czech-Polish plot. One was accused of organising a munitiors dump (or Poles, and the others of espionage and possessing arms.— London, January 14,