FOOD CONFERENCE

Greymouth Evening Star, 17 May 1943, Page 6

FOOD CONFERENCE

POST-WAR SUPPLIES

NEW YORK, May 15. Breaking the secrecy surrounding the United Nations Food Conference which will, begin on Tuesday, the chairman of the British delegation (Mr. Richard Law) told the Press that the British Government regards the conference as a matter of tiie first importance and is determined to do everything in its power to make it a success as the first concerted attempt of the free peoples to lay the groundwork for a post-war world. He expressed the hope that the conference would contribute towards the United Nations system to prevent poverty and hunger from breeding future depressions and wars. Mr. Law added that the ultimate goal was to ensure that all mankind had an adequate and suitable supply of food, clothing, and shelter. He conceded that the conference could not achieve Utopia overnight, but should go on record that the fully developed resources of free men would be adequate to ensure everybody their basic nutritional needs. Mr. Law explained that a worldwide nutritional improvement could be achieved. He urged the continuance and extension of the war-time system now in effect in Britain for milk and other items. Also he urged the establishment of an international food office similar to the International Labour Office. “If such an organisation were created the British Government would enter The peace with greatexconfidence that we shall not be unequal to the tremendous task facing us,” he said.