Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1941-08-15
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FOOD FOR BRITAIN
In the headlines, lend-lease aid to
Britain ID chiefly . story Of planes.
tanks, ships, guns and munitions.
But these dramatic war supplies are
only one part Of the picture.
An equally vital, though little
known. phase Of this gigantic pro-
gram Is food.
Today, practically every ship
leaving U. S. shores for embattled
England carries stocks of food as
part Of its cargo. Also significant
Is the fact that this steady how Of
food shipments differs markedly
from those Of World war days.
Then the foodstuffs were in bulk
form-boatloads Of grain and fresh
meats. But now, with British and
Allied shipping suffering terrible de-
struction, there aren't enough bot
toms to transport both bulky arma-
ments and bulky food across the
hazardous Atlantic.
Since the cargo space for bulky
ornaments cannot be reduced, and
with the British food situation be-
coming acute. food l. being shipped
in concentrated and dehydrated
form. Thus it Il carried in the
same ships with arms and NUM-
tons, taking up relatively little
space.
The extent Of these shipments and
what they meant to the American
farmer il shown graphically by the
following list Of lend-lease food pur-
chases in q very recent seven-week
period:
American cheese. q. 4s3. LIS
pounds; corn starch, 3, $40. 900
pounds; frozen eggs, *, 64s. $50
pounds; dried eggs. Ass. $50
pounds; canned fish, l,0s3. o52 cases;
dehydrated soup. 4,400. 900 pounds;
soy beans, s.o7o, 900 pounds; dried
beans, 40,770,000 pounds; corn
sugar, 5,696, 900 pounds; engines,
$3.50 pounds; dried apricots, 1885,
600 pounds; honey. 3,557 800 pounds;
enriched -four. 399, 900 pounds; con-
centrated orange juice, 81. 800 gal
Ions; vitamin A, 2,547, l83 units, vi
tamm Bl, 3,965 kilograms; peanut
butter, l.762, 900 pounds; lard, u.s.
662, no pounds.
Note-Management Of the lend
lease food program is under the
Surplus Marketing administration.
aided by the U. S. public health
service, the British ministry Of
health and the Anglo-American food
purchasing committee.
FREEZING CHINESE FUNDS
There was one unwritten chapter
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funds Of those two Oriental neigh
bors, Japan and China.
1t was published that the funds
Of friendly China were frozen a.
well a. the funds Of unfriendly
! Japan. But unpublished was the
fact that China for four months had
been asking the state department
to freeze its funds, but the state de-
partment had refused.
China's request was quite unusual,
for most nations object strenuously
to having their funds frozen. For
instance, Switzerland, hearing that
she would be included with Ger
many when Hitler's funds were fro
zen, argued for weeks.
But in the case of China, many
of her funds are in the hands of big
Chinese merchants and bankers in
Shanghai, who for business reasons
are playing with the japanese. And
they have been draining Chinese
currency from the country.
So Roosevelt's special Chinese
emissary, Lauchlin Currie, was re-
quested by Chang Kai-shek to ask
Secretary of State Hull to freeze
Chinese funds. This would have ham
strung the pro-Japanese Chinese.
However, Secretary Hull refused.
Twice Chang kai-shek made the re-
quest, but both times it was refused.
In fact the state department even
denied that such 4 request was
made, presumably on the ground
that it came not through diplomatic
channels, but through Mr.. Currie
who is only White House secre-
tary.
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funds were frozen, Chang Kai-shek
got his request fulfilled. But it took
japanese aggression in the South
Pacific to do it.
BOOTLEG GASOLINE
The days of bootlegging from
Canada may be coming back again.
In this case, however, the bootleg
ging will be gasoline, not alcohol.
Canada has imposed ban on sale
of gasoline between p. m. and 2
a. m. on weekdays, and all day SUM-
day. But this restriction does not
apply to Americans.
Now comes the proposal of Oil
Administrator Ickes to impose a
similar ban on gasoline sales in
eastern states. Result would be
that q motorist would be unable to
buy gasoline in Buffalo or Detroit,
but could cross the river and buy il
in Canada.
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