| Show Official Warns Of World World Food Shortage WASHINGTON Jan 30 INS An An official of the Int International matlon l Emergency Emerge cy Food council warned Thursday that the world Is faced with food shortages sh of great severity aggravated by a a. growIng growing growIng grow grow- ing lack of oC cooperation from the councils council's 30 member nations Dr Dennis A. A Fitzgerald secretary secretary secre secre- tary general of the w world wide wide food organization declared It Is abundantly clear cear that until the next harvest our work will be carried carric on continuously in inthe inthe inthe the presence of crisis or threat of of crisis Fitzgeralds Fitzgerald's statements were contained in an official report presented at the third meeting of the toe I 1 E F C successor sor to the wartime wartime wartime war war- time allied combined food board as world food Council of Nations The council is made up of oC every major food trading nation except two wo R Russia u s oS s oS i a and Argentina Through commodity committees it t controls imports and exports of ot critical foods Fitzgerald said that optimistic forecasts three months ago of an improvement in 1947 In the world fo food bod d' d situation unhappily have I I been proved incorrect He reported that only for sugar sugars is s the outlook as good now as it was vos at the October council meet- meet ing ng This he credited to further improvement in prospects for a good Cuban crop Cereals Worse He called the vitally important cereals s sit situation i t u a t i Ion o n definitely i worse than it was in October Fats and oils for shipments for 1947 were were set Iset at tons tons larger larger than thanin in 1946 but one-half one the prewar prewar prewar pre pre- war volume A A. further drop In meat shipment shipmentS shipments ship- ship I mentS ment this year was predicted I I He added that as a result of ofa ofa ofa a severe shortage of animal proteins proteins proteins pro pro- in m European diets there isan is isan an abnormally mally high demand for beans jeans peas and lentils lenUIs The report stated that rice for forthe forthe forthe the far tar east is very inadequate He attributed some of ot the in increased increased in- in creased demand for cereals to the rice shortages As a result he reported reported resorted re- re ported sorted that cereal requirements have lave risen from tons in n October to tons while estimates of ot export supplies have dropped from tons to tons |
