CHEAP FOOD POLICY MAY BE BOUGHT DEARLY IS OPINION OF CANADIAN
(Rec. 12.30 p.m.) LONDON, May 16. A Canadian, Mr J. H. Wesson, told the International Federation of Agricultural Producers at Scheveningen (The Hague) that a cheap food policy could be bought dearly. He challenged the 'British policy as announced on April 23 of staying out of the international wheat agreement because of the proposed prices. Mr Wesson said: “If the United Kingdom imported wheat at 30s a bushel or butter at 6d a pound she could only export the equivalent in value of industrial goods.” If the world wheat agreement was not signed and operating by August, 1947, then importing countries wanting to sign it would have to pay the high world (prices, possibley for soine time. Delegates and observers from Czechoslovakia, Hungary, India, Burma, and China diseussed the way of rehabilitating their agricultural economies, and agreed to seek world bank credits.
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Evening Star, Issue 26103, 17 May 1947, Page 7
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