Minim For Onions If Marshall Aid Given

Northern Advocate, 11 March 1948, Page 5

Minim For Onions If Marshall Aid Given

LONDON. Wed. (2.45 p.m.)—Without help through the Marshall Plan, Britain could not keep up imports of foodstuffs and raw materials in the next year or two, said the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Sir Stafford Cripps) broadcasting on the 1948 economic survey.

This would set back the British standard of living and production "so that it would take years and years before we could even hope to get straight. ’ Britain aimed, with Marshall Plan aid, to get enough food to keep her inhabitants decently fed and enough raw materials to keep them fully employed. “We shall not be able to do more than that, even with help." he said. "Unless we face the facts we shall drift into chaos and darkness," he concluded. WORKERS COOPERATING The International Trade Union Conference on the Marshall Plan, which ended today, unanimously agreed that workers’ organisations in all participating countries should cooperate in the plan. The conference repudiated any policy of aligning the East against the West. An advisory committee of 10, with headquarters in London, was established to carry on Marshall Plan work and to seek contact with the Committee of European Economic Cooperation.

The United Press says the Secretaries for Army. Navy and Air told a closed session of the Senate Armed Services Committee that American military authorities in. Germany had abandoned their belief that the world was relatively safe from war for at least 10 years. They are reported to have painted a grim picture ol' heightened pressure in Europe, ax id to have cited disturbing figures on Russian submarine strength.