United States Most Reduce Production

Chronicle (Levin), 25 November 1949, Page 5

United States Most Reduce Production

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Received Thursday 7 p.m. WARRINGTON, Nov. 23. The United Rtates would have fo reduce its farm acreage, thP Food- and Agriculture Organisation was toJ^ today by Alr Rtanley Andrews, Director of Foreign Agricultural Relations, who said the United States great wartime expansion in food production ilad been achieved througli the dropping of some jf her prewar soil conservation practices. beveral .million acres of dry land areas had been turnecl back to grain production but now, because of the la--k of an effeetive demand for crops and also in order to promote a souiul use, some land must be allowed to rest. j Alr Andrews said this did not mean that the United States intended to produce only for its domestie needs. The United States had offered to place 100, j 000,000 bushels in the world wheat pool in addition to the 1(55,000,000 she was committed to export under the international wheat agreement.""

Alr James Gardiner, Canadian Aliniscer of Agriculture, said Canada was fmding it diffieult to market some of her production and eonsidered the time had conie to rest some of her land. Alr James Dillon, Irish Aiinistcr of Agriculture, ealled on the United States and Britain to disclose their intention about the future convertibility of sterling, declaring that all conferences and dehlierations were dependent on that situation. Alr Dillon said: " If unconvertibility is to be a long term factorj in our lives, we shall inevita'biy i .--trangle one another. It is necessary to know wliether we are to plan for a long siege or live in a normal world where you can buv goods for casli and not | through burcaucratic transactions. " 1 1 e j saitl that ii' Britain broke down under the ajipalling burdens she had been carrying for tlie last ten years, "then as certain as we are in this room today, a third world war will be fought in Texas and the forces of freeclom will not prevail. " AFr Dillon suggosted that for a lim ited period there shouid be an unlimited passage of men, money, and materials ! between Britain and t'ne United States.;