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Chronicle (Levin), 23 April 1946, Page 5

LONDON, Aprii 21. Unlcps there are most compeUing reasons, the Government will not impose bread ratloning, believing "this would be a very unfair burden to place on the people, says the Daily JMail. The Daily Telegraph says that among emergency measures to reduce whe'at coiisumption, but to avoid rationing, the Government is believed to have agroed 011 at least four posslhle courses These are: — 1. A further increase 111 the rate of wheat extraction, which was recently raised to 35 per cftnt. 2. The introduction of a standard loaf. 3. A reduction in the manufacture of hiscuits, buiis and calces. 4. A reduction in the amount of barley allocated for beer. The final decision 011 liow the economie's are to be effected without rationing will he made when Air. Attlee returns to Downing Bfreet from Chequers. The Daily Alail, in a leader, deelared that no nation in the world had endured so low ahd monotonous a standard of diet for so long as Britaiji. The c.ountry's stocks of wheat and flour were now at a dangerously low level. Mr. Roover claiined that they were at pfesent about 1,000,000 tons and could be reduced by oue-half, but it would be liighJy imprudent to eut stocks further unless replacenients were 011 the way. "We are a nation upon whose efficiency, initiative and powers of organ- ' isation millions of hungry people depjiridyi^ the '--Daily. Mail adds. . "If we eut our owii- stqcks to f'amine level and theh fail tb obtain the proniised supplies from America, the world prospect would indeed be parlous. " The paper adds that the wheat erisis has been approaehed by a series of grOss miscalculations.