Races of the World Insane; are Still Facing Terrible Famine
Reed. 5.15 p.m. London. May 5 Giving what lie called “a last warning to the world,” Sir John Boyd Orr, retiring DirectorGeneral of the United Nations Food ami Agricultural Organisation, said on arrival at Southampton in the Queen Elizabeth
from America: I “The whole human race is ; rumbling to destruction There is only a fifty-fifty chance of solving the food problem, and if it is not solved there will be world chaos in the next fifty I yearj. ’ ’
i He added that the nations of the world were insane. They i were spending one-t hird of t heir national income in preparing for •| the next war instead of using the world’s steel and industrial production to conserve the resources, jof the land.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 6 May 1948, Page 5
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