MORE BREAD FOR PEOPLES OF WESTERN EUROPE

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22813, 7 December 1948, Page 5

MORE BREAD FOR PEOPLES OF WESTERN EUROPE

(9 a.m.) PARIS, Dec. 6. The food position in Western Europe has been steadily improving in the past six months, according to a report by the organisation for European economic co-operation. The report states that the average person in the Marshall Plan countries ■ would eat about 19 per cent more bread grains than in'l94B-49, but this was about 10 per cent below the prewar consumption. There should be real improvement in France and Belgium. Last year the French and Belgians 'had only half as much bread grains per capita as before the war. In contrast, for still another year Western Europeans will eat about 33 per cent less meat in 1948-49 than before the war. With the Marshall Plan aid and increased agricultural production the Western European, on the average, has had this year a daily diet of 2850 calories, compared with 2500 calories last year and 2800 calorics in pre-war days.