DANISH FOOD

Greymouth Evening Star, 9 August 1946, Page 8

DANISH FOOD

DETAILS OF BRITISH AGREEMENT

LONDON, August 6.

The British-Danish food agreement provides that the price of butter pdr cwt. f.o.b. delivered, from July 1, 1946, to July 31, 1946, shall be 205/- sterling. The price from August 1, 1946, to December 31, 1946, shall be 220/-. The quantity of butter to be delivered in 1946 shall not be less than 43,000 tons, plus 90 per .cent, of the quantity exported from Denmark in 1946 in excess of 77,000 tons.

The price from January 1, 1947, to September 30, 1947, shall be 220/sterling. Denmark undertakes during that period to deliver to the United Kingdom 62J- per cent, of her exportable surplus up to 73,000 tons, plus 90 per cent, of the quantity exported in excess of 73,000 tons. The price of bacon per cwt to be delivered from April 1, .1946, to July 31, 1946, shall be 140/- sterling; and from August 1, 1946, to December 31, 1946, it shall be 150/-. Denmark is trying to complete the total of 41,000 tons of bacon in 1946. The price from January 1, 1947, to September 30, 1947, shall be 150/-. The Danish Government in that period undertakes to send the United Kingdom not. less than 90 per cent, of its texportable surplus. The price for eggs, from August 1, 1946, to December 31, 1946, shall be 19/6 a long hundred. There is a firm contract for the period January 1, 1947, to September 30, 1947, for the purchase of 85 per cent, of Denmark’s exportable surplus at prices ranging from 15/6 to 19/6.

Mr Vyshinsky Explains Mr Vyshinsky and his bodyguard have been spending a rollicking Paris evening, I hear, explaining to eminent French jurists the system of Soviet justice based on “democratic dictatorship," writes “Peterborough” in the London Daily Telegraph. He perplexed magistrates of the National Judiciary by Lisserting that dictatorship is democratic “when it acts in the interest of the people.” Soviet democracy, said the Russian, was like a conxrade in arms and not a lovely lady to be protected. Democracy, he insisted, meant, in Russia, “struggle, not tranquillity.” Dictatorship of the proletariat was democracy in action. Eminent, jurists murmured a little at this, especially when Vyshinslqv said ths Soviet fought faults in Soviet democracy “by propaganda and judicial precess.” There was still more rustling at the use of the phrase “democratic dictatorship” in relation to the Moscow trials of 1937. A questioner asked if a Russian penitentiary prisoner refusing to accept the “principle of work” is “categorically exterminated.” Mr. Vyshinsky simply said “Yes.”