LEAGUE ECONOMIC COMMITTEE

Evening Star, Issue 22144, 26 September 1935, Page 11

LEAGUE ECONOMIC COMMITTEE

CONSUMPTION OF FOODSTUFFS MR BRUCE’S RESOLUTION REDRAFTED. Press Association —By Telegraphy-Copyright LONDON, September 25. (Received September 26, at 10 a.m.) The Associated Press Association’s Geneva correspondent states that Lord De La Wan- (British Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture) submitted to ’the League Economic Committee Mr Bruce’s resolution, redrafted to meet the demands of France and Italy, for consultation between the International Labour Office and the International Institute of Agriculture. Mr M'Dougall, on behalf of Mr Bruce, opposed the Spanish and other countries’ attempt at extension to include examination of tariff barriers to exporters of primary produce on the ground or tee capping the investigation by the undue widening of its scope. Lord De La Warr is consulting the Spanish delegates and others with a view to redrafting the resolution to obtain a unanimous vote.

GENEVA, September 25. (Received September 26, at 11 a.m.) The Spanish project will be met by slightly enlarging the scope of Mr Bruce’s resolution which the committee unanimously recommended to the Assembly. The resolution urges the Governments to examine practical means of securing better nutrition, and requests the council to extend the work of the League’s health organisation ou nutrition in relation to public health. [Mr Bruce’s resolution last week in effect urges Governments to examine practical means of securing increased consumption of foods, and invited the League Council to instruct its technical organisations to collect information on the measures of *the various countries for improved nutrition through increased consumption of food. Mr Bruce argued that by increased consumption of certain foodstuffs specified diseases could be eliminated, and unless people were given the benefit of science' a social upheaval was inevitable.]