FEEDING FIFTY MILLION
BRITAIN’S RESPONSIBILITIES IN MIDDLE EAST. Britain has made herself responsible for the welfare of 50,000,000 people in the Middle East, supplying them from various sources with industrial raw materials, coal and oil for transport and public utilities, fertilisers for crops and foodstuffs —100,000 tons of cereals are now <pn their way there. The work is carried out by the Middle East Supply Centre, which, with headquarters at Cairo, serves an area of 2,500,000 square miles, twentyfive times the size of Britain herself. The centre co-ordinates the supply of all goods and makes the best possible use of shipping It works in close co-operation with the United Kingdom Commercial Corporation, which has branches in ten countries— Turkey, Persia, Iraq, Syria, Palestine, Egypt and the Sudan, as well as in Spain, Portugal and Iceland. The corporation has a representative On the Middle East Supply Centre, which in
turn maintains close touch with Mr Oliver Lyttelton, Minister Of State in the Middle East, and with the Intend-ant-General of the British arftiies in that region.
Agents of the U.K.C.G.- in Egypt, Iraq, Syria, Palestine, and South Africa have recently met ih Cairo, under the chairmanship of Lord Carlisle, to discuss the important questions of transport and co-ordination.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 April 1942, Page 4
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