Evening star., 1943-04-18
BY the Associated Press.

Plans for an international AAA,
designed to provide balanced
abundance of food for all peoples,
are expected to be laid before the
United Nations conference on food
and agriculture to be held at Hot
Springs, Va, beginning May 18.
The conference itself was called
by the United States as the first
step toward carrying out the At
lantic Charter pledge of President
Roosevelt and Prime Minister
Churchill to free the world from
want.
Mr.. Roosevelt has expressed the
belief that freedom from want of
food must be the starting point in
building a future world order.
Although the agenda Of the con-
ference to which 43 friendly ma
tions have been invited to send
delegates, has not yet been dis
closed, associates say the American
delegation is prepared to advance
the idea that some type of world
organization, patterned somewhat
after. the American AAA, must be
| established to control and guide
farm production and international
| trade in agricultural commodities if
hunger and famine-and the ills
that go with them-are to be elimi-
mated.
Throat Cutting" Ban Sought.
The principles Of such an orga-
nlzatlon have been outlined many
times in recent years by President
Roosevelt, Vice President Wallace,
Secretary of Agriculture Wickard
and other administration leaders.
They hold the view that the world
must not be allowed to return to
It's prewar practice of throat cutting
for international trade, or that in
dlvldual nations pursue policies
aimed at making themselves self
suff1clent. Such policies, coupled
with tariffs and other barriers to
trade, contributed largely, they con-
tend, to an international dilemma
OF hunger and famine, on the one
hand, and unmarketable food sur
pluses and low farm prices, on the
other.
Advocates of international Good
Grafton contend that the only sound
approach to agricultural problems
is development of worldwide pro-
auction program patterned on the
basis OF nutritional and consumption
needs OF the world population. Such
a program, they say, would require
a greater output of food and un-
oouotedly would stimulate world
trade in farm commodities,
Vast Production Needed,
Food experts of the Agriculture
department estimate that the diets
OF tWo-thirds of the worlds people
are inadequate for healthfuI living,
even In normal peacetime. They
say program raising diets of the
undernourished to minimum levels
would require an expanded produc-
tlon OF cereals by about so per cent;
meats, fish and poultry, by nearly 100
per cent; vegetable oils, by about
l25 per cent; milk and dairy prod
ucts, by about $50 per cent, and
fruits and vegetables, by more than
300 per cent.
Even in the United States. where
diets are rated comparatively good,
an adequate consumption program
for all, they say, would require
greater production of meats, fish,
poultry, eggs, milk, fruits and veg
etables.
The question of mechanism to
give effect to such an expanded pro-
duction and consumption program
has brought variety of views.
Some administration quarters sug-
gest that the United Nations Gre
ate a world food and agriculture
authority ito administer and di-
rect a world program. Others sug-
gest that international committees
for each commodity be established
to regulate production and flow.
Food Exchanges Involved.
This program would involve a
certain amount of exchange of food
among countries. The interna-
tional authority would establish i'm
port and export quotas designed to
divide the trade equitably among
the various surplus-producing ma
tions.
Such program would involve
readJustments in production pat
terms in most countries. Europe,
for example, would reduce the pro-
duction of cereals, which North
and South America can produce
more cheaply. but increase the
production of fruits and vegetables
and dairy products.
Another duty would be supervision
Of an ever-normal granary supply
of basic commodities for use in event
Of crop failures and other emer-
gencies.
AL countries would be encouraged
to make full use of free school