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forts to combat the black market.
Wheat shipments from the United
States, Canada and Russia kept coming
to help France through to harvest after
which, food ofncials ventured, the nation
might be largely sself-sufncient. The
average Frenchman, has . government
estimated 1900 to 1000 calories daily,
depending on the region, The wine
ration was still four quarts a month.
but. an increase of two quarts has been
promised for July.
ITALY-Supplies OF fresh vegetables
and fruit benefited Italians who have
been told the good crop auguries will re-
suit in further improvement For the
rest of this year and in 1947. the nation
probably will be able to supply more of
its own food needs than at any time
since l943. The wheat crop was esti-
mated at 5,70o,o0o tons. up IS per cent
from year ago, but still 100000 tons
. under prewar production.
Spaghetti still is once month
meal Bread and sugar are scarce
Hundreds of thousands of packages sent
by relatives in the United States have
helped many to exc out their rations.
YUGOSLAVIA-Summer has brought
alienation of the food crisis in all parts
of the country except those excessively
damaged by war and wild mountainous
regions. These areas have been saved
from starvation by UNRRA relief
HOLLAND-Enough to live on, but
nothing more. Minister of Agriculture
S. l.. Mansholt said recently, "for
months we have been living from hand
to mouth, and the food situation is more
critical than the average Dutchman
imagines.
+ 1t has been difficult to maintain the
ration at 1.700 calories day for adults,
augmented by unrationed foodstuffs
such as fresh vegetables, fruit. cereals.
fish and poultry which are by no means
within reach of the majority. Scarcest
items have been sugar and fats.
Holland, receiving no UNRRA sup
plies, has allotted $4,000 tons of its own
wheat stocks to France and Belgium.
BELGIUM-Daily bread ration for the
period ending July 9 was reduced from
! 1914 to 101a ounces. The monthly butter
ration, however, was increased from 8
to 16 ounces. Rationed diet gives each
person 1882 calories daily.
GREECE-Authoritie have started
distribution of the domestic grain crop,
estimated at about 80 per cent of pre-
war yield and UNRRA announced it
had halted wheat deliveries in the pro-
ducing areas. Larger supplies of lamb,
Greece's basic meat, were Forthcoming.
Nevertheless, the average family has
meat on the table only two or three
times week, for a pound of lamb costs
some Is cents, and the average Greek
income Is about $40 month.
Floods caused serious damage in the
Argos Plain, whence Athens received
the bulk of its fresh vegetables, and In
the Thessally Plain. Despite that, early
vegetables were plentiful in the Athens
market.
The average family eats two meals a
day, consisting of beans, a variety of
pastry, fresh vegetables and soup. The
government recently impose semi
rationing in restaurants.
HUNGARY-At present it is not so
much shortage Of food as shortage of
money - ridiculously inflated - with
which to buy it, although food officials
have expressed themselves gloomily
about prospects for winter, since plant
ings and expected harvest run rs per
cent below prewar figures.
In Budapest there are, broadly speak
ing. three kinds Of average meals: In
public kitchens Tor the penniless, Who