World Shortages

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Food Supplies – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 10 November 1947.

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Photo of Mr Evelyn Strachey Mr Evelyn Strachey , Dundee 12:00, 10 November 1947

We are doing our utmost to ensure increased production of essential foodstuffs by such projects as our own agricultural programme announced in August, the East African groundnut scheme for providing increased quantities of fats, and by the plan which we are developing with other countries, both within and without the Commonwealth, for helping them to increase large scale food production in suitable parts of the world.