FOOD UNLIMITED IN ITALY
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Received Thursday, 11.45 a.m. LONDON, May 2. Cries of "shame!" and "Oh!" greeted a statement in the House of Commons by Captain A. E. Marples (Cpnservative), who said that he was recently in Italy and had been able to buy butter, cheese and meat in unlimited quantities. "No, not in the black market," he replied to interjectors. He said he went into six shops, and was able to buy as much as he wanted. He asked that the matter be investigated in view of the cut in Britain's cheese ration. The Minister of State, Mr. P. J. Noel-Baker, in promising an investigation, assured Captain Marples that the amount t?f meat in Italy was very small. He added that the mass of ^/.he population had not received meat, and the disruption of transport had rendered rationing extremely difftcult to carry out. Captain Marples raised the matter with the question of whether, in view cf UNRRA's appeal for more wheat for Italy, the Government had any information regarding rationed foods'there. , -• Mr. Noel-Baker gave details of the ration scale, including seven ounces of bread daily, six ounces of fats monthly and seven ounces of sugar monthly if it was available, but no meat.
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Chronicle (Levin), 2 May 1946, Page 5
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