BRITAIN SEEKS RELIEF IN GERMANY

Chronicle (Levin), 11 September 1947, Page 5

BRITAIN SEEKS RELIEF IN GERMANY

Received Thursday, 10.10 a.m. LONDON, Sept. 10. It is taken for granted in London that the sudden summons of the United States Senate Appropriations Committee for September 29 is a move towards easing Britain's dollar expenditure in Germany, says Reuter's financial correspondent. It is also regarded as an excellent augury for the coming conversations with the Secretary to the Treasury, Mr. John Snyder, and other United States officials. The British Treasury is clear on the fact that Britain, after December or January, will not be able to continue to find dollars for feeding the eombined British-American zone on a 50 '50 basis. It is pointed out that Britain, at the time the merger agreement was concluded a year ago, realised she might not be able to continue this financial burden, and she is now invoking her rights under the agreement to call for an annual review of the financial provisions. Reuter's Hamburg correspondent says that British and American food and agriculture officials have announced that nearly 7,000,000 tons of food, costing British and American taxpayers £22, *902, 850, has been imported into the eombined British-American zones between VE Day on May 8, 1945, and August 31, 1947. Nearly 5,000,000 tons were bread, grain and flour from Britain,

Canada and Argentine valued 'at £15,00:0,000.