SPREAD OF ASIAN COMMUNISM

Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26055, 7 March 1950, Page 5

SPREAD OF ASIAN COMMUNISM

LORD BOYD ORR BLAMES FOOD SHORTAGE

LONDON, March 5. In a paper read for him at a London conference to-day, Lord Boyd £ rr » the former Director-General of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation, blamed the short* age of iood for the spread of Communism in Asia.

Lord Boyd Orr said: “People who are short of food and the other P rj mary necess ities of life, and believe that these can be obtained, will overthrow any government or economic system which does not make them available.

‘There can be no special contentment or peace ip the world so long as the majority of people lack food and believe that under a new order they can get it These two problems—the scarcity of food, bringing about revolt over a large part of the world, and unmarketed surpluses elsewhere creating economic differences—should in a sane world, cancel each other out.’ If the nations co-operated on denned concrete plans, the ideological differences separating them would, in time, lose their significance.”