WORLD FOOD BOARD

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 25020, 31 October 1946, Page 6

WORLD FOOD BOARD

BRITISH VIEW OF SCHEME

OPPOSITION BY U.S. DELEGATE

(N Z. press Association—Copyright) (Rec. 11 p.m.) WASHINGTON, Oct. 29. Britain to-day did not support the United States in virtually rejecting as totally unworkable the plan for a world food board which is being studied by the preparatory commission of the Foqd and Agriculture Organisation. The Australian delegation has yet to be heard, but it is expected that the British Commonwealth countries will share the British view expressed by the Parliamentary tlnder-Secretary of the Ministry of Works (Mr liaroia Wilson) that the idea of “buffer stocks’’ of food to meet a world famine is excellent, although it should come under the control of an overall world commodity authority” handling both industrial and agricultural products. The United States .delegate (Mr Norris Dodd) dubbed the F.A.O. proposal as by and large impracticable. He urged the commission to ppnflne itself to studying proposals for increasing agricultural production and raising the nutrition standard and leaving problems of stabilising prices to the Ameri-can-sponsored proposed international trade organisation.