VITAL TO BRITAIN
AMERICAN AID FOOD AND MATERIALS CHANCELLOR'S WARNING LONDON, March 10. Without help through the Marshall Plan Britain could not keep up her imports of foodstuffs and raw materials in the next year or two, said the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Stafford Cripps, broadcasting on the 1948 economic survey. This would set back the British standard of living and production, ‘‘so that it would take years and years before we could even hope to get straight.” Britain aimed, with Marshall Plan aid, to get enough lood to keep her inhabitants decently fed and enough raw material to keep them fully employed. “We shall not be able to do more than that, even with help,” he said “Unless we face the facts, we shall drift into chaos and darkness.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22584, 12 March 1948, Page 5
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