Unless Conflict of Ideologies Ceases People will soon Starve

Wanganui Chronicle, 7 May 1948, Page 5

Unless Conflict of Ideologies Ceases People will soon Starve

Heed. 5.15 p.m. London. May 6 Sir John Boyd Orr told the “Daily Mail” last night that he was leaving his job as Director- 1 General of U.N.O.’s Food and Agricultural Organisation “so 1 that I can speak out. ’ ’ 1 “I have a lot to say and a lot' of people are not going to like it,” he said. “From now on my] immediate mission is to expose 1 fully the alarming food situation! eonfrofti” ■ iho w i.

faces us nil 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.” 1 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 Brit- ' "I' ’ “top looking to thej

I United States, which had almost reached capacity in food production, and had no more land to develop. ' He 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.”