BRITISH COMMONWEALTH MAY GIVE LEAD, SAYS SIR JOHN BOYD ORR

Grey River Argus, 7 May 1948, Page 5

BRITISH COMMONWEALTH MAY GIVE LEAD, SAYS SIR JOHN BOYD ORR

(Rec. 9.0). LONDON, May 6. Sir John Boyd Orr told the Daily Mail last night that he was leaving his job as Director-General of U.N.O.’s Food and Agricultural Organisation, “so that I can speak out”. “I have a lot to say, and a lot of people aren’t .going to like it”, he said. “From new on. mv immediate mission is to expose fully the alarming food situation confronting the world. Famine faces us all, unless there is a halt to the conflict between free enterprise and Communism, a halt to enable people to get down to growing more food”. The British Commonwealth alone, he added, could give a lead towards that halt. It. had more manpower and far more undeveloped land than any other nation or group of nations. Britain must stop looking to the United States, which had almost reached its capacity in food production and had no more land to develop. , , Sir John added that he had been depressed while in America at the way the British were being regarded there as “of little account” in world affairs. “That is nonsense”, Sir John said. “We are the only people who can give a lead”.