FOOD CONFERENCE

Grey River Argus, 17 May 1943, Page 1

FOOD CONFERENCE

BRITISH DELEGATE'S STATEMENT. (Rec. 8.0.) NEW YORK, May 15. Breaking the secrecy surrounding the United Nations’ Food Conference, which is beginning on Tuesday, the Chairman of the British delegation, Mr Richard Law, told the press that the British Government regards the conference as a matter of first importance and is determined to do everything in its power to make it a success as the first concerted attempt of free peoples to lay a groundwork for the post-war world. He expressed the hope that the conference would contribute towards a UnitedNations’ system to prevent poverty and hunger from breeding future depressions and wars. He added that the ultimate goal was to ensure all mankind an adequate and suitable supply of food, clothing and shelter. Mr Law conceded that the conference could not achieve utopia overnight, but it should go on record that the fully developed resources of free men- will be adequate to .ensure everybody the basis of nutritional needs, fie explained that worldwide nutritional improvement could be achieved. He urged the continuance and extension of the wartime system now in effect in Britain for milk. Other items also urged were the establishment of an international

food office similar to the Labour Office. “If such an organisation were created the British Government would enter the peace with greater confidence that we shall not be unequal to the tremendous task facing us.”