U.S. FOOD PRICE SUBSIDIES

Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 24095, 3 November 1943, Page 2

U.S. FOOD PRICE SUBSIDIES

ROOSEVELT URGES EXTENSION SUPPLIES FROM N.Z, AND AUSTRALIA * ( (N.Z. Press Association— Copyright) 1 (Rec. 10 p.m.) WASHINGTON. Nov. V Mr Roosevelt, in the longest mes*i, sage he has ever sent to CongresV • urged it to continue to increase the Administration’s 800,000,000 dollars 1 food price subsidy programme, to en* sure adequate supplies and prevent/ - serious inflation. The President said?S that food was as important as any> other weapon in the prosecution of the war. It would be equally impor* tant in the rehabilitation and relief». liberated areas and in shaping tM/ peace. ■ /■-*' To abandon the present policy.®,? maintaining fair food prices would in* v crease the cost of living and bring., demands for increased wages, which;would then be justifiable, thus starting a dangerous inflation cycle, said to*> Resident. The food crop in 1942.W8! the largest in history. It would W slightly lower in 1943, but live stock , figures were so much higher that ij was expected that the total of all foot* , in 1943 would exceed the 1942 total. . “The United States has . receives from Australia and New Zealand 90.000. of beef and veal, compared with 99.000,0001b which the United States has provided to 8“ lend-lease countries combined, n® continued. “We have received fro® . Australia and New Zealand 54 p« cent, of the butter and 16 per cent or the lamb and mutton which we expQ** under lend-lease to all countries.^ “In the last war we fed 4,000,W® , people in uniform. In this war, to tne end of the year, there will be almost" 11.000. in uniform, scattered oyer , all parts of the globe. Our Allies \ armed forces will also increase m 1944. They will require food assisr* ance from Almost all the food, going to Russia is for the Russian Army. A very small percentage of our food now goes to feed the liberated; peoples of North Africa, Sicily, and;, Italy. This includes only the bar®/ necessaries of life. . - ; s “Although British farmers, havemade strenuous efforts. Britain stu*< needs imports to avoid starvation American food provides only 10 re cent, of the British food supply, yet : is safe to say that England could n have continued in the war withoutm,|f help of American and Canadi^ —~ V- u - -si,.