WORLD FOOD COUNCIL

Greymouth Evening Star, 27 May 1946, Page 5

WORLD FOOD COUNCIL

TWENTY NATIONS INVITED TO JOIN WAR AGAINST FAMINE LONDON, May 26. The head of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (Sir John Boyd Orr) has been authorised to proceed with plans for a new long-term international food organisation. This organisation. may have executive powers to deal with world food shortages. The plans for the proposed organisation will be submitted to the United Nations Social and Economic Council, possibly for inclusion in its agenda, and will be approved at a full conference of the Food and Agricultural Organisation in August. The United Nations emergency food conference in Washington has agreed to the establishment of an emergency food council, which 20 nations have been invited to join. This council will take over the allocation duties of the Combined Food Board, and will work closely with UNRRA. It, is expected that the council will carry on .until 1947, when the permanent organisation will be functioning. PRODUCERS RECOMMEND WORLD CO-OPERATION LONDON, May 26. The co-ordination of the agricultural producers’ co-operative movement throughout the world has been recommended by the co-operation committee of the international conference of agriculture. A statement issued by the conference says that delegates representing 31 nations will consider a motion for the establishment of an International Federation of Agricultural Producers. The statement says this is the first time farmers of so many nations have been around the same table. “It is safe to say that if there were differences of outlook a week ago they have already been ironed out as far as the major issues are concerned,” says the statement. “A measure of accord that promises to be exceptional as far as international conferences go is reported from all committees. — REFUTATION OF MORRISON’S REPORT LONDON, May 25. ' “The Lord President of the Council (Mr Herbert Morrison) will make a statement in the House of Commons early next week on the Washington refutation of his report on the British-American food agreement,” says the Press Association s diplomatic correspondent. “The whole matter has been taken up urgently through the British Embassy in Washington with the State Department. “It is felt in London that if there is any genuine misgiving m the State Department concerning" Mr Morrison’s interpretation of the Washington talks, the United States should have communicated with Britain through diplomatic channels instead of by a public statement. The statement made the matter more difficult to deal with because several different versions reached London.” ARGENTINE TO SEND WHEAT TO FRANCE' LONDON, May 26. “France will receive 230,000 tons of wheat from the Argentine,” says Reuter’s Paris correspondent. “The French Minister of Food (M. Demont), after returning’from the Argentine, where he arranged to purchase 100,000 tons, said the total included 50,000 tons as a gift. Eighty thousand tons previously purchased were awaiting shipment.” RATION CUT FOR DISPLACED PERSONS LONDON, May 26. Rations for 400,000 displaced persons in the American zone of Germany will be reduced by 300 calories daily from June 1. This is the first cut' for displaced persons, . whose basic ration has been maintained at 2300 calories. The ordinary' refugee and displaced person under the new ration will receive 2000 calories and people who have been persecuted by the Nazis 2200 calorics. To complete the delivery of 45 bags of potatoes, the sale of which had been arranged, 18 German railway employees stole a seven-wagon train from Neustadt, in the’ French' zone, drove it 80. miles to Wurzberg, in the American zone, where they were arrested. The men told border officials that ‘the train was being taken to Darmstadt for repair.