HUNGRY MILLIONS
THE WAR ON WORLD POVERTY, by Harold Wilson, M.P.; Victor Gollancz, English price 14/-. CITIZENS OF THE WORLD, by Stringfellow Barr; Victor Gollancz, English price 13/6. OTH these books offer constructive auguments about world hunger, based on the fact that for the vast majority of mankind (two million New Zealanders among others excepted) the most urgent problem is not war, not Communism, not the cost of living, not taxation. It is -hunger. Harold Wilson is that brilliant young Oxford economics don who resigned from the Labour Cabinet in 1951 with Aneurin Bevan. His book describes all post-war attempts to
deal with the situation, and the handicaps and limitations to success, and leads to an argument for a World Development Authority which Britain and the Commonwealth should promote, with such support as can be secured elsewhere, but "if necessary alone." Mr. Barr, an. American, takes his country and its Government to task for its obsession about the supposed need to integrate military with economic aid. He advocates: an International Development Authority. Mr. Wilson’s book has more facts, Mr. Barr’s more argument. -_
L.J.
W.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 778, 18 June 1954, Page 13
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