NO FAMINE

Grey River Argus, 24 August 1946, Page 3

NO FAMINE

Sufficient Cereals Supply NEW YORK, August 22. Mr Anderson, in a speech, said that the world’s food harvests were dispelling any fears of another famine emergency next winter. Cereal supplies -will be about sufficient to meet the requirements of twenty-two million tons of wheat and four million tons of other grains until the 1947 harvest. LONDON, August 21. General McNarney (U.S. Commander in Germany) at Berlin described as baseless and incorrect Mr. F. H. La Guardia’s charge that the United States Army was opposed to the continuation of U.N.R.R.A. «in the care and repatriation of displaced persons. General McNarney’s denial came as a surprise as Mr. La Guardia and General McNarney dined together last night shortly after the former had declared that he expected U.N.R.R.A. from now on would work hand in glove with the British and American armies. General McNarney denied Mr. i_,a Guardia’s statement that the army refused to provide 90 days’ rations for Poles who were proceeding home nnd that the army was using Poles of the Exile Government to deal with Polish refugees. He supported Mr. La Guardia’s View -that U.N.R.R.A. was not being used as an espionage umbrella but revealed that one Russian woman service agent was caught operating an an U.N.R.R.A. emplovee in the American zone. She was being returned to the Russian zone. General McNarney said the American zone would continue the policy of receiving political and religious refugees but would not accept refugees from the (British and Russian zones where no persecution existed. The British Army has stopped the Jewish brigade in its zone from using army transport to take Jews to the American zone.