Cuba’s Sugar Interests
(Received 12.30 p.m.) LONDON, May 12. Cuba has asked the International Sugar ' Committee to eliminate the prospective surplus of 600,000 tons in 1939-40 in retufn for her agreeing to release a surplus of 200,000 tons to relieve the present shortage. Cuba is resentful of British attempts to reduce prices when they have reached a satisfactory level for the first time in a decade, and contends that if Britain seeks to build up emergency stocks it should not be done at Cuba’s expense.
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Northern Advocate, 13 May 1939, Page 7
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