RUSSIAN FOOD POSITION SERIOUS
WASHINGTON. November 4. Lieutenant-colonel Ralph Olmstead, Deputy War Food Administrator, who has just returned from Russia, said that the food situation there was unbelievably difficult. The Soviet Union would require food imports for at least three years after the war. "The Russians, who were at present existing on bladk bread, potatoes, and cabbage, could use 10 times the present amount of food imports if the ships were available. • ■ '
Lieutenant-colonel Olmstead said he found British diet adequate, hut lacking in variety. The quality of British post-war food imports would require to be maintained at the present level.
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Evening Star, Issue 25325, 6 November 1944, Page 5
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