WAR ITEMS

Grey River Argus, 17 May 1943, Page 2

WAR ITEMS

U.S. RECIPROCAL TRADE WASHINGTON, May 14. On Tuesday evening the House of Representatives by 342 votes to 65 renewed President Roosevelt’s power to negotiate reciprocal trade agreements, but for two years only, not three, as previously.

GUADELOUPE DISTURBANCE LONDON, May 14. The North American Newspaper Alliance says that serious disturbances in which four were killed broke out at Guadeloupe, evidencing the population’s growing impatience with General Roberts’ totalitarian rule. Discontent is brewing elsewhere in the islands.

DIVINE HELP AT DUNKIRK.

LONDON, May 13.

Recalling the Angel of Mons, a story of Divine intervention at Dunkirk is gaining currency in Britain. The story is that a number of German pilots shot down and captured during the Battle of Britain, when questioned why the Germans did not bomb the British on the beaches of Dunkirk to a greater extent than they did, replied they were unable to, because of swarms of British fighters they met whenever they approached Dunkirk. Of course, the British air umbrella over Dunkirk was non-existent, or at least of the skimpiest, wherefore the interpretation many put on the Germans’ story is that Divine intervention caused them to imagine they could see British protecting lighters, which in fact did not exist. GRAIN SHORTAGE IN BRITAIN. "rugby, May 13. Mr. Mabane told the Commons that for three months after the landing in North Africa, the total shipping available to the Ministry of Food was barely sufficient to bring in even the grain needed for use during the period. “Now you, perhaps, understand why] Lord Woolton was so anxious you should eat potatoes instead of bread.” Provided, as he confidently believed that home agriculture continued to produce a large portion of our food as during this year, the country could be confident that the national larder would continue to be well stocked. Our scientists could now properly relate food and fitness. We were about to produce and import not merely food out food values, not merely filling but nourishing. “After the war many foodstuffs will be short. The grand strategy of food in war time has its lessons for the period of disturbance that will inevitably follow the final collapse of the Axis. The way to inflation is competitive buying between the nations of the world.”