BRITAIN'S FOOD CRISIS
MINISTER ANSWERS CRITICS ADVICE TO THE PRESS LONDON, February 20. "I knew there were pitfalls in my job when I started: the only thing I did not know was how deep the pits were," said Sir Ben Smith, the British Minister of Food, in a speech at a luncheon at which 585 guests ate unrationed food. He added that having plumbed the depths and been hauled back to carry, on, he would continue trying. . The Press, he said, during the last fortnight had handed him an unprecedented barrage. They could hit him if they liked, but they had to remember they might bring a sense of frustration to Britain, which was the one thing to be avoided. The people had money to spend, but nothing to buy, and if they were given a sense of frustration no one was going to be the winner. The Government needed help and the world needed help. It was tragic'to listen to the cry from countries of: "What is going to happen to us?" unless Britain could do something for them. " We shall have to decide between the Commonwealth's needs and the needs of former enemy countries," he concluded.
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Evening Star, Issue 25724, 22 February 1946, Page 5
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