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EMPIRE SCIENCE
Do official statistics tell the full story of the food situation in Europe?, The Daily Express Chief European Reporter has gone to the Con- tinent to see how ordinary people are getting on in practice rather than in theory. Second report is below:
"Index of Hunger" is the title of a chart prepared in New York from the expert uvidence before the Combined Food Board.
one evening in their cosy little flat in Amsterdam's Churchill- street,
It was a simple three-course meal: meat broth from a tin (a) Nations, it is explained, are special treat in my honour), a classified in this chart on the dish of ment with mashed pota- basis of "best available.csti- toes, anuliflower and alettuce mates of average per capita salad-seasoned not with oil-and such as the Belgian calorie consumption," that time.j vinegar,
No precise precedent exists for the Empire Scientific Conference just opened by the King at Lon don University. Held under the auspices of the Royal Society, and adjourning its meetings first to Cambridge and later to Oxford,
I have just travelled from familles I visited used, but with. it will unite delegates from the Belgium, a country marked on a fixture of long treasured ket- and Worcestor BUCO. haven't seen oil for Dominions, the Crown Colonics the chart as "poorly fed," to chup
Holland, bracketed with Britain ("Wa and India, to discuss a number and Switzerland as "adequately years," said Jan, my host.) of technical subjects-medical, fed" (better fed, that is to say. nutritional and agricultural, as than Belgium), and on from well as certain aspects of physical Holland to Denmark, which, on and acronautical discovery. The, Conference forms a kind of bridge British between the war-time
Commonwealth Scientific Office
By SEFTON DELMER
in Washington and the Cominos- wealth Scientific Official Con- the chart, takes its pince as a ference which will meet in Lon-"well fed" country alongside the don on July 9. For part of the United States.
And now I am wondering object of the present meeting is to lay down the lines of organis-about that chart, I am wonder- ing research throughout the Com-ng about the conflict between the picture it paints and the monwealth, which the subsequent situation I find in the various gathering of official delegates may caloric consumption." elaborate in detail for approval by I am wondering how far this the various Governments which conflict, may, have contributed have sent them. Nothing, as the to the demand of the Combined King emphasised in his opening Food Board that we in Britain speech, can take the place of. per- give up anot.ier 200,000 tons of
our wheat
to feed & Europe sonal contacts, and the present allegedly
the verge on sessions should be the precursor starvation. of other meetings held periodical- ly elsewhere within the Empire. There will, however, be some regret that the precedent is being set of meeting behind closed doors. As his Majesty pointed out, the recent concentration of scientific research uppa new weapons and
conditions.
of
The meat dish consisted of three not very large portions of mincemeat, each roiled up in a thin slice of real with some Kravy poured over it. "We are having the left overs from Sun- day's dinner," said Mrs, Jan.
I remembered the menle and the foodshopa In Prague 'and la marked Naples (Italy "critical" on the chart).
But the Dutch don't corn-
plain.
"We have enough," they any "We are not going hungry. We are not eating anywhere near as well as we did before the war, but we are a long way off stary- ing. Here in Holland it is like in England-austerity."-
CARNIVAL
By: Dick
POEK IP44 BY NKA GERSTE MOLĮ, MA, REG U. A T
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"For heaven's sake, don't discourage his dog laundry! It's the easiest way to keep him clean!"
HOW TO LOSE ALL YOUR FRIENDS
How would you like to lose ladies, fair or not, according to hearted friends and have no influence your fancy.
Only the strongest on people? With the help of
can live in splendid isolation, I think there is a great deal Professor N. Gubbins?
Below, the professor has darning their own socks, cook- in this comparison of Holland and Britain. We are both of us lated many of the proverbs, ing their own meals, and talk- farther away from our accus-quotations, platitudes, and un-ing to themselves.
which people tomed standard of living than cient wisecracks
occasions, our opposite numbers in en e so en appropriate of the countries classed on the and debunked them,
They are the conversation chart an "poorly fed" or ven "critical."
pieces of those who don't think and pass for for themselves,
The Difference in "poorly fed" Belgium, you can buy as many eggs as you can afford at fourpenco nach. In unrationed. They adequately fed" Holland eggs are rationed; one a fortnight for children under 16. Adults
arc
And we are both being asked to sacrifice our food supplies for have These countries which either not rationed themselves at all, like Greece, or which like Italy and Hungary, have allow- ed the black market free rein.
By
NAT GUBBINS
If At First You Don't Succeed, Try, Try Again Only sensible people capable of self-criticism know when to stop trying..
If some authors had stopped trying to write masterpieces long ago they would be happier men now, and there would be more paper available for Gov- crnment White Papers,
It Takes Seven Score Generations To Make A Gentleman
"Well fed" is how the com-wisdom in almost any gather- pilers of the Index of Starva-ing.
Study the list carefully, and tion describe Denmark,
the next time your friends crackt one of these gags, pounce on them and tear them to pieces.
If this wore true, we would all The professor guarantees that bo gentlemen, as we are all the. in a short time you will have no product of hundreds of genera friends at all.
tions..
Seven hundred
generations would never produce a German gentleman. 4.
The Pen Is Mightier Than The Sword
the hideous possibilities of the are not entitled to eggs at all. atomic bomb have given us a Belgium allows its normal somewhat misleading background consumers a bread ration of Glb. of the cvil potentialities of a week. Holland, which has just the Combined
And they are right. science. The main trend of in-been asked by
The Milk Kush vestigation is, not maleficent nor Food Board to spare some 100,- should it be secret. Surveys of 000 tons of its wheat reserves
Of all the countries I have to Belgium, among other coun- mineral
resources, physiological tries, allows the average Dutch-visited in Europe since the end effects of tropical
of the war (I have not been to man 4'Alb, a week. nutritional problems of native The meat ration in Belgium such posible rivals as Switzer-
Still Waters Run Deep races and these are all on the is 1b. a week. In Holland it island and Sweden). Denmark is
casily the best fed..
If this means that people who Conference's agenda-are matters ozs.
The black market plays its i When I landed in Copen-contribute nothing to a general fur open discussion, whose results
the Dutchmen from discussion are profound think may benefit other peoples outside role in the freding of the Dutch bagen all the Commonwealth. Gacat ad- as it does in the feeding of the my plane rushed for the barers, it is sheer nonsense.
Belgians, French, Italians, Yugo- And not for a lager or quick
Although some remain slient are bored, most because they vances, to quote the King's speech slavs Hungarians and Czechs, gin, but for milk, M-I-L-K
For hundreds of years men again, have been
made in war-In the restaurants, if I ordered There stood the barman, red-
nothing to say,
but there is still war, or th time, which are of the highest im- a meat dish for which I should faced and beaming in his white main allent: because they have have been writting against wa
If there are two foola in a threat of war. All
warnin portance in peace-penicillin, have produced coupons (was coat surrounded by a circle of
and
Dutchmen gathering, one talking nonsense about the atomie bank, and new insecticides and radar among never given any official alloca milk bottles
While for the sake of talking nonsongo the descriptions of its e the most notable of these dis-tion of coupons) the waiter clamouring for milk. coveries. The present Confer- simply put down a supplement- they drank the milk they grab- and the other allent, it's a thou won't stop people making ence, it appears, is not likely to ary charge on the bill for buy-bed at the plates of sandwiches sand to one that the man who bomba
ing the coupons on the black of roast beef, smoked ham, says nothing is the greater fool feel like it. be the scene of any announcement market.
smoked salmon, cured herring, The only thing you can say hard-boiled
and mayon-in favour of the silent fool is of discoveries of equal importance.
nalee, and a dozen other good that he knows when he's-licked. The good wishes which will at-
things.
But he probably doesn't know less be accompanied with the hope ranges with hor dairyman and
grocer to wrong in coupling Denmark that at least a summary of its her butcher and her
Silence Is Golden proceedings shall be published, ler her have under-the-counter with America. For in America
Only in the Case just men- and that future, conferences of supplies. But Dutch control of the average citizen is eating 15 the same land shall be open apart the farmers is tighter than in per cent, more than he did be- tioned, or if you are guilty and are being tried for your life.
For one thing, nobody els They are not doing that in And sometimes at an auction will blow it for you, and, for from such meetings as seem parti-other countries, the black mar- fore the war. cularly to require a highly con- kot produce is
where, in Belgium, Black mar Copenhagen. They are content.
took "Silence is another, it makes nonsense oht fidential approach.
ket prices are twice and three to cat almost as well as before If you
(which is saying a golden" to its logical conclusion of another piece of advice: You at your own times the official prices in the war, Hollands I found them five and lot), and to export what re-you would never make a remark will be taken
valuation." mains to the countries that can about anything, and never an- ten times as much.
swer a civil question like "How Nevertheless, the black mar-pay for it.
They are even ratiuning bread are you" in case you gave ket, is part of the ordinary
though not in the restaurants yourself away. * Dutchman's life.
As a matter of fact, "How
Dutch Pay More
cgg
tend its endeavours must none the The Dutch housewife nr- But I think the chart is anything else.
.:
U.S. Marines To Stay
:
Washington. June 29. .The acting Secretary
scarcer, and
.
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Or using ther
Where There's S
There's Fire Not with the coal wo't getting lately.
Never Blow Your Ow
Trumpet
Travel Broadens The Mind If you have a narrow mind, The man who drove me round at a rate of 12ozs. a day, most in the hired car said: "When of which must be taken in rye are you?" is one of the most travel won't make any differ I bring home 50 guilders (45) broad.. Butter is rationed difficult questions to answerence. Many Englishmen who... State, Dean Acheson, said to-/at the end of the week things lb. a week--and you are ex- Those who ask it never want to have travelled round the world day that the United Staton are tight, There's nothing over pected to give up butter, cou-know how you are, and if you | several times return on each marines will have to stay on when we've paid for the food. pons for your restaurant meals. gave them a list of your com-occasion to laugh more heartily
of
guard duty in China until order But if I bring home 70 guilders is assured even though about (47) we get by comfortably. 1,000,000 Japanese troops have And we can buy butter on the
black, market." been evacuated.
I have a Dutch friend who At presont 20,000 marines
worker in a physiologichl guarding the supply lines from
There is no black market.plaints they would never speak at the strange ways of foreign-
need for one. to you again. Nevertheless, Gre
you should say something, even There is no
Even the 250,000 German if its only "All right, thank Where There's A Will. Everyone has plenty.
you."!
There's A Way refugees who fled to Denmark when the Russians entered To refuso to answer at all
Faint Heart Ne'er Won Fair Lady
f the faint Rubbish. It
Not even a hall file. Try opan- ing the can with your teeth.
are in China. They are mainly earns £10 a week as a resear East Prussia and have been sit because "Silence is golden" la] You are starving on a desor | coal producing areas to coastal laboratory. He is typical, of ting" there in camps ever since not only boorish out is carry-l island-with a can of sardines, V cities Acheson said it is essen the thousands of little men with are well fad. They get just|ing caution beyond all reason-but no canopener and no knife.y
fixed incomes. And his wife about twice as much food as able limite. tial, that this service continues: told me that she, too, bought an Germans in Germany.
In a lengthy statement on
Yardstick Fallacy American
policy on China, occasional half-pound of buttor Acheson told a news conference on the black market. We must
have it for the boy," she said: How would I amend the Star that the evacuation of Japanese he reats feeding up."yatson Chart? I would certain hoarts who are ensnared by
She was surprised when I tuldy move Balglum out of the troops was a great accomplish- ment. He said about 100,000 her how, in Athens and "poorly fed category and put Japanese remain and they are Baloniko (charted as "poorly her among the Adequately card of living was in each in being removed na rapidly as fed butter, was sold unration=| feds. (Switzerland, from all I dividual country and then winke possible. He said hệ van daad on the free market at 60% have heard about life there, and my chart in ace turbed by hew
*-1993 ground for the best quality, while considering they have their own degree to
Chins and
Come VARNISHES & LACQUERS
bat miik butter jold for, 4 marchant navy ssbringing, thefu
supplies, seems to me
andid
the
Fools Rush In Where Angels Fear To Tread You ought to be grateful to the fools who rushed into the war. If Liby had facto on foreign soll, you might beeniin toncentratión
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