MORE RUSSIAN GRAIN FOR BRITAIN
LOXDOX, Juiy 20. The diploimitie i orrespondent of the newspaper The People, says that Marshal Stalin, iii " behind-the-scene diplomacy," has reversed a decision by Mr. Molotov, the Foreign Minister, and iustructed the Soviet Trade iMinistcr, Mr. Alikoyan, to increase the latest Eussian olfer to Britain of (350,000 tons of grain over the next few years to ten tinies that amount. Under the revised offer, Britain would reccive a million tons of grain in 1947, 1,500, 000 tons in 1948, and 2,000, 000 tons in 1949 and 1950. The correspondent says that Britain, with this grain in prospect, can f. threaten to cut her grain-buying from the Unlfed Htates, bring doivn the prit'-e of grain, and conipel Washington to revise article nine of •' the - loan agreement. "The Itussian niove," he says, ' ' is aimed at weakening American influence in Europe.
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Chronicle (Levin), 22 July 1947, Page 5
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