A BUMPEP HARVEST
WOULD SOLVE WORLD'S FOOD PROBLEM
BRITAIN'S FAT STOCKS DANGEROUSLY LOW
LONDON, February 14. The director-general of the United Nations Food Organisation, Sir John Boyd Orr, speaking in Glasgow, said that, given a moderately good 1947 harvest, there wpuld be hope, of abandoning the British bread ration and increasing Europe’s ration. If there was a bumper harvest the worst of the world’s food trouble would be past. The fat shortage in Britain was likely to last for two years. The present stocks wefe dangerously low.
Sir John, when asked whether America could not do more to help, replied that America had already done much by increasing food exports, but Americans had no conception of an austerity diet. “ People who had all they want cannot imagine the plight of the foodless.”
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Evening Star, Issue 26028, 17 February 1947, Page 7
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132A BUMPEP HARVEST Evening Star, Issue 26028, 17 February 1947, Page 7
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