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President Truman has lost a valuable Cabinet colleague as a result

the extraordinary Wallace speech, though quite gb-| Iviously the request for Mr.

Wallace's resignation was inevir· · able. Only a week earlier Mr. Byrnes, the American Secretary of State, had made a considered and welcome statement at Stuttgart of his country's foreign policy. His speech-an unambiguous indien tim that the United States had no intention of relapsing into isula timism was presumed to hagg been made with the full weight of American Cabinet authority. Mr. Byrnes gave no indication that his country saw any cause for alarm! in British policy (which has, in

At Copenhagen this week. The co-operation with the United most determined effort in history States), or suffered from any dle has been made to put the nourish

ment of the human race on a fusion that there was anything

planned and secure basis. The which might be called "British United Nations Food and Agricul-ipvel Imperialism." Yet six days later tural Organisation has examined

food | Mr. Byrnes's colleague, Mr. comprehensive leng-term

Secretary of play worked out by Britain's fore Henry Wallace, Commerce, delivered in New most dietary expert, Sir John Beyd York a speech implicitly criticising Orr. The plan aims at raising the every recent action of the State level of diet throughout the world like 50 per cent by something Iterspersed with attacks upon the machinery proposed is a

British Empire, whose policy ["would lead the United States straight to war." If not quite isolationist in the old sense, Mr.Į

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ANY

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stuffs. The

U.N.R.R.A. Food Sold Openly In Athens

|

Very often a villago which Athens, Sunday (delnyed). facde with which the villager Que comment is almost nor the poorer towennan is un- has been promluod a convoy of commonplace nowadays on the] amiliar, and of are of which supplies by a giver date and purt of a visitor to any Euro- he has never been aware. fails to receive it spreads this Dean capital, with the exception? On the other hand, he rentises story when the failure has, in r Berlin and Vienna. It has that the sale of these things fact, been caused by purely ad- And 30 to do with the

of will bring him in chungh toiministrative resojia. profusion consumer goods available for 1 rebase brend sufficient to keep per cent. of these administra cal in the shopa, the excellent himself and family from a tive reasons can be summed up

in the one word transport. nd uxurious food that can be toute starvation.

Vehicle Breakdowns obtained in the restaurants and. In many parts of Greece the

he general air (if one dora U.N.R.PZA. ration has bern There are not enough trans- ot explore too thoroughly) of down to 700 caftries, that is.

prt vehicles in Greece. Thoso.. well-being which compares nows than half of what is recog which are available are mostly avourably with the austerity mised to be the basic minimum in the last stages of disin- and tightness still prevailing in for the health of the sadeniny tegration, and the roads

worker. England.

progressively By selling a portion | deteriorating

of maintenance. But those who mak: a point of this ration a Greek can, in through lack- penetrating beyond the main fact, buy enough bread to car-1 At any given time an average Lerete of the main towns mugs bim and his family through. 40 per cent of U.N.R.R.A. see other sights which will At pae time there U.N.R R.A chicles in the cou.ry are un-. scarcely confirm this appear supplies fetched fantastical. dergoing repairs, and this num- Bully beef, for bor certainly is not likely to ned of garish prosperity. Ad- high prices. mittedly, the number who do instance, could be sold by now lens. but is sufficient to an penetrate is not large, and peasant for between 40 and 50 hecerunt for many of the stories their evidence in drowned by times is U.N.R.R.A. price, an:af "theft" of U.NR.R.A. sup the volume of entirely authen-affer that it was resold at

ie instances of plenty and of 10 lavish display of bath the necessities and luxuries of life. The beefsteaks, the cheese, he butter and the wine with which we were welcomed in ormandy two aummera #g en to the heads as well as the stomachs of many of us. And the homekeeping reader. Truggling with the intractable rbiam presented by the limi ations imposed by rationing nd the almost total absence of rationed fo.de, may well be

from envisaging xcused Aurope "swimming in plenty." No sooner has same ne exposed the myth of plenty in one coun-) ry than it bole up in another.

Plenty Amid Poverty

refit by a retailer.

fo Avoid Mass Famine

Prices have now evenzed tu, in a considerable extent. b ralong a random sample th hst. cheere, sugar and refle sold in Chins by UN.KR. over a given periodt fast mont fetched 6,680 drachman.

this free market the

sam cist would

17.71: mantity Talmas, That, in effent, ra

By CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY

"Daily Telegraph" Correspondent

I had to travel to Warsawsents a subsidy to Chics

11.000 drachmas.

to eat a beefsteak of the may nitude and succalence that

members only in the Bues! English chop-houses of are

war daya. In the same strielten

o

"},

contributions had been an invest! gation which established that th weather classes tended to en more than they needed, while th poorer classes had an inadequat. of nourishment partly through their poverty and parti through their ignorance of h to make the best of available food

wartime system rationing and price control, coupl ed with the educational campaig

In short, the rovelling to make all classes diet-conscione

U.N.R.RA, foodstuffs is at enabled even the poorest mens

part groups to obtain adequate nourish

present an integrab

01 Creek economy. supolic

By mens 27 ment and to use their food to the best advantage. Durin the war, a survey carried out ni the lines of Sir John Boyd Or prewar survey revealed that th standards of diet had been ver: | Wallace certainly reverted to the

largely levelled up. It was foun idea-completely foreign to Mr. Food Board to Byrnes-of exclusive spheres of tural prices by the creation and that the working class diet wa interest, and seemed happy to ofmanipulation of buffer stocks, thus fully adequate-apart from a p fer Russia a free hand in "nearly giving growers security and de-aia deficiency in vitamins que

consumption while ja third of the world." He also quate living standards. This would the inevitable cutting off of frei in turn secure higher production middle class consumers hifferad added the following extraordinary and, hence, higher consumption very little from that of workin..

we can get levels. sentence: "I believe | co-operation, once Russia under.

stands that our primary objective leader. Sir John

The F.A.O. is fortunate in its Boyd Orr is is neither that of saving the Bris generally

recognised £15 the Irish Empire nor the purchasing of world's greatest expert on nutri-Just published by the Chief Medi

By DR. GEORGE GRETTON

stabilise agricul-

Britain Tackles

The Task

class ones.

the diet a

materna

World Problem

Th

y you find yourself blushing it muss famine has been avoid

through these at the quantity of whipped ad

dificult cream you are expected to co months, although the nomina"

has ume with your fruit.

entory level

consistently been below the minimum for particularly In the dids, which grow very little

If you want to buy, quits elimately, enough sugar forth, Four winter inm-making, you

[ in better go to Pragne. Slovakia two meat dishes and

few trifles of soup and hors aeuvres and fish and eggs and fruit are considered the lens Chat can hospitably he offered o a foreign visitor. And, so All of which seems a long way from cod and potatoes and nurgarine.

L

The real fact is that on the Continent, with the exception

in

at their own corn,

plins.

aro

Nor is the situation made easier by the carefree habit of many Greek drivers who employ U.N.R.R.A. velticles an taxis for their own profit during their spare hours and frequently in- volve them in further damage is the result.

are also Charges of theft

reasona.. for political nade See U.N.R.R.A. food becomes the property of the Government after its arrival in Greece, any allegation of dishonesty or in- ficiency in its distribution is stick to beat the Government with. Thus any assertion of Left should always be read with an eye to the party allegiance the person who makes the Lassertion.

Of course, there is liable to be theft at every stage in the of distribution. long procesy

be proved, Sometimes it can

metimes it remains an asser- tion. But it does not becur cn a large scale nowadays and it is the unavoidable 'concomi- ion of the conditions under which Greece has existed for the hart six years.

It encouraging that' check-up on the last U.N.R.R.A. ves that arrived in Greece Even so U.N.R.R.A. has been established that only half of desperately hard put to main-one per cent,, of the goods hod keen stolen. In an imperfect fain a supply of cereals there have been parts of the world that is not too.

record. inland and some of islands where a few oats have Leen withdrawn from their al location as cattlefeed and die.

and

the

buted as food, being boiled up into a sort of out-meal stew with a little salt-hardly an in cling, let alone a luxuriou, meu!"

23

bad a

By The Way

By BEACHCOMBER

I have never been to a bottla. party, but I have just read of by the elaborate arrangements, which it is possible to get some

drink

What thing to amazes me in the account is that hat it in a country which boasts that

all this rigamazoo is civilised

at one.

and (skladdiery is necessary to,

furn

+

Tusk-Tusk

Nor dreams that they will make and all too noon, Perpetual cannons in some drab

The effects of this are reflecter in the figures of national hent

enl Officer of Britain's Ministry of oil in the Near East with the lives tional matters. His work in Bri- Health. The birthrate rose dur of American soldiers." Bees in tain during the decade before the ing the war to

its highest levs bonnets have seldom buzzed lou Second World War helped to found for nearly 20 years; chif a very few countries, there is generally speaking, an in- der. To those who may well the basis for the wartime system mortality due to disease was th

"Theft of U.N.R.R.A. stock i equality of eating which world have been bewildered at such lan. of food cantrol in Britain. This in lowest ever recorded;

to litt not be tolerated, under present rehably widespread rather turn has created great and mortality was reduced quage, it is worth explaining that

of the

"capitalian." | fan on a large scale, and ot on more than half coherent body of experience

prewar conditions, Mr. Wallace is notoriously mo, which every food planning system figure; infant mortality fell "reactionary," "feudal" Eng- present it is on the deding tional and notoriously independent in future can draw. Since useful about eight per cent; and th

land.

rather than on the incress?, I Ist be remembered that from of many of his colleagues. He has lessons can be learned from Bri-everage height and weight

Unrationed Goods

the stock is u quite alten shown himself to be tain's wartime

the moment. food economy, children is greater than ever.

Here in Athens it is the ohl to describe the the victim of political delusions. is worth while to look at the re- report was able

story. Shop windows and rated from the ship ca to

can indulge a normal His utterance, moreover, must be view of this system and its results British pronle as "tough and re

shelves are crowded with goods. lighter outside the harbour i sistant, with high morale."

al available on the free mar becomes the property of the appetite. It is like so witch- seen as part of an electoral cam-which has just been published.

Greck Government and, doctor ritual, in a jungle clearing, ket, of which the British con- paiga directed to prevent the re

I will wager that if drink was amer at home obtains only u ch, their responsibility. election as Governor of New

Opportunities for petty mi-a bord to come by in the House York of Mr. Dewey, the form

The F.A.O. today faces a pa mengre and frequently an irre

of Commons there would soon be Before the Second World War. blem similar in kind to that guar ration.

fering occur in the transferen:c

an uproar. Republican candidate for the Pre-

Besides the expected displava af the goods from the ship tr sidency, and was intended to at Britain had been in the habit of Britain in 1940, though the under

of tinned ment, tinned fish, the lighter, from the lighter to Importing about two-thirds of its lying causes are different. Ther tack Mr. Dewey as an upholder of food supplies from overseas. The is not enough food to go round.

cartons of sugar. cigarettes, the quny, and especially from an Anglo-American mutual de-war cut off the sources of much of and the world at large for lach chocolates, and cream, there the quay to the warehouse, and Par off he wanders by Zambest fence pact. At the same time. this imported supply, and sharply

of a planned organisation such a

appears a suficiener of those then again from the warehouse side. Mr. Wallace was a responsible reduced the shipping space and

Britain crented at the beginning humbler household articles to track or railway during the Preening his splendid leaks în

toperiod of transport and dis-eavage pride. Minister, the last survivor of Mr. manpower available to carry the of the war-has been content tu

which are still so dilexit let the rich have too much whi

In England-actieles | Tribution. Roosevelt's Cabinet. It was quite rest. Thus Britain was faced with

come by the poor have to little. In Bri a time when

like buttons, combo. elastic. A fairly satisfactory system impossible for both he and Mr.a food shortage

teofhbrushes.

of guards at all these points has Byrnes to sit together in the same the nation needed better nourish-tain, production was increased by

mechanising agriculture and gu Cabinet. America could not per ment than ever in order to full erally stepping up its efficiency Now, a startling and disquiet been employed, and of course

the strenuous demands imposed by

ng proportion of the faut there are receipts to be file mit herself the embarrassment at its intensive war effort. To meet Price control, combined with suf

for Halo-t in at almost every stage. But tuffe available producera D clea having two such contradictory the problem, the basis of the na-

sidies, gave standard to work

ery high prices incidentally--it will never be possible to en- on and a guar voices discussing and guiding her tional food economy was complete-

marketin

rure that all the guards in

re quite obviously U.N.R.R.A. antee of security

We nagety fellows, who foreign policy. Either the Unitedly changed.

their produce, while at the sam upplies which have been ship themselven incorruptible. They Slates must attach itself firmly; In the first place, production at

time stabilising consumption:

ed to Greece to be provided are hungry men with. familie: mutter and snivel and whine and moan about having to wait 15. to the Byrnes programme or take home was practically doubled by

Ratlening, with special regard fo

free of charge or at purely and they are inhabitants of

months for a suit to be made the different path urged by Walthe inercpeed utilisation of land. priority consumer Buch

nominal prices to the almnest country where the theft

sught, I suppose, to have some lace. President Truman made by mechanisation and by the In- mothers and children, ensured fa

distribution.

starving townspeople and vill Government - cwried

regard for the fact that it took Application the choice most

gers about whose exinterceng been for four years welcome to Bri.troduction of the most scientific

three thousand million years of unfort patriotic duty. That ought tain and a peculiar incident atay methods. This Alted the greater science to food economy made

people at home are

world progress to produce the part of the gap left by the reduc- balanced and adequato dlet avail

nately becoming Increasingly ways to be borne in mind. now be regarded as closed.

first act of plastic false teeth. xeptical. tion of imports. Next, imports able for all. And finally, eduar It might, however, be worth were completely reorganised in op-

Big Thefts Not Easy

To say nothing of milk bottles. tion of the public in dietetica én

What can be mald ia tha, asking what Mr. Wallace meant der to get the maximum nutri-sured the best dse of availab

whereas in the early daya be-: by talking of "British imperialistic tional effect from that still food.

fore much precautions were policy in the Near East" and "Bri-imported. Only such commodities The task of the F.A.D. tiny

adopted, a single thief was tish balance of power manipula were imported an yielded a very a far greater one; it deals wit

more likely to bo succesfit, ⠀ tions" lending the Udited States high food value in relation to hundreds of millions of people, as

wow_no importan; theft can be Street to war. Was it British troops who shipping space used, Animal teed- the great majority of them ha an ine:mparably lower standard refused to withdraw from Persia ing stuffs were almost eliminated.

Britain's

workin eggs were imported in powdered ving than Was it British guns which shot form, and so on. Again, a con- casas. But Britain's wartim down American aircraft over

plex and akitful system of ration- experiment should be af Jugoslavia? At a time when Bring and price control secured fair atlinate value in any internation tain has virtually withdrawn from distribution of available supplies food plan. India and is proposing withdrawal to all classes of the population. from Egypt, and when we are The feeding habits of the porta- vainly seeking assistance from the tlon were reorganised by a m United States to enable us to bination of dietetic education, and.

finally available foods withdraw from Palestine, it seem

scientifically treated where' neces-

1r

0

Arc

sil

properly

2

carried out save by the caretul

A cynic might remark that thieving from U.N.R.R.A. d not matter so much, sinen the

Time And Time Again

L.S.TS. In Civvy

Londen, Sopt. 22.

Lt. Col. Frank Bustard had a

No, attempt is made to eon-} enl the origin of theag stocks, Any retaller will tell you the

e has bought them back freni he recipients and is now sell ng them at as high a price ar

thinks he can get. This

somethia: e-operation and playstur -|- Burgeats nically. wrong in the svati but the reselling of U.N.R.R.A. applies is, in fact, an ecom. nic necessity, if the poorer re- ipients are to live at all.

The average Greek villager as normally lived upon a supplies go to the Greek any eldedly restricted diet, consist ing mainly of broad, olives, and cheese, He very rarely tastes neat, and olive oil has to All the place of butter and all the other fats. In the coastal vil Aviation, was taken suddenl tages and Inthe islands this at the LaGuardia Airport and dietary will be supplemented by Lovelling Up E

rushed to hospital, suffering from fahrspoon will ha Consumption on that lacks Ollgardition weWell-Balanced Diet

DANAS DANHARIAS MUHOS A variety

were

ed a little odd to hear Mr. Walary in order to provide the vito- face borrowing from M. Gromykomin, calcium and fron content re-

AIR CHIEF ILL

New York, Sept. 28.

how.

rensational stories of lorries Mr. K. Gregersen, 66-year-ol

neveral persons worklug in hu mony. And that is not too list to do with L.S.Ta. (Landing Ships, Tank), while Assistant cay to fix

of Transportation, Director North Western ports, and he came to the conclusion that they could be useful in peace as well But not in those cir- as in war. cumstances to the Greeks wan Two of lussous, one serving necessarily need it most.in Italy and the other in ethio;

You can hear any amount of Navy, had the same idea,

Frank Bustard and Sons, Ltd. Indon with U.N.R.R.A., fool announce that they have non which set out on a journey to quired. three 4,000-ton LS.TS. Admiralty, and whit remote village and never from the arrived at their destination. It soon be running a regular cat has been assumed thint the forty carrier service hotween Tilbury and its load Have simply bug and Calle Antwerp, Rotterdam

or M. Manulliky phrases about autred for a balanced and healthy Danth Director General af: Civ), "British imperialistic policy in the diet.

Near East." Thy, those who Have knowledge of the recent time many American, broadcast-so newspaper articlos ir: will: scot