ASIA’S FOOD PROBLEMS
(10 a.m.) MANILA, March 16. India protested today against the British proposal that New Zealand and Australia be admitted to membership of the Far Eastern regional branch of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation. The proposal was attached at a nine-nation meeting at Baguio _to establish the branch as a clearing house for Asia’!? food problems. The nations represented will be Pakistan, India, Siam, Burma, Netherlands, Philippines. China, Britain and France. The meeting tentatively approved of a compromise plan under which New Zealand and Australia would be excluded from the geographical boundaries of the Far Eastern food and agriculture organisation region but invited to participate in its activities.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22588, 17 March 1948, Page 5
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112ASIA’S FOOD PROBLEMS Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22588, 17 March 1948, Page 5
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