CONFERENCE CALLED
EMERGENCY FOOD COUNCIL, FEAR OF CRISIS NEXT YEAR WASHINGTON, Rec. 8 p.m. May 26. Thirty-two members of the International Emergency Food Council today decided to call a conference of Ministers of Food and Agriculture of member Governments to plan means of combating a world food crisis during next year The council appointed a sub-committee to decide when and where the conference should be held The Indian delegate, Mr H. C. Abhyankar, warned the council that India was faced with the possibility of its population rebelling against the rationing system. “I do not recollect any period in India as dangerous as the coming four months,” he said “Vast starvation is possible unless adequate, allocations are granted and delivered before September.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26472, 28 May 1947, Page 5
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