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FOOD rOOD FOtt FOR BRITAIN BRITAINIn In the headlines beadlines , lend lease aid 1 to toBl1taln Britain Bl1taln la Ja cble chiefly y Ii fr atory story of planei planes planeitanks , tanks lanks , stups ships . guns 8\JI1B 8 JI1B \ and mw munluoni tlons tlonsBut But these dramatic dramaUc war auppllcs supplleB aronly are areonly only one part ot of the picture pictureAn pictureAn I pictureI An equally vlt vital I though little littleII known phase ot o ( this gigantic pr - II IIknown gram I is . toodToday food tood Today pracUcftlly ps-a ps a - Ucoally : every ship shipll'aving Ipaving ll'aving llaving ' U S chores sbores tor ( or embattled embattledEngland England carries cardes stocks ot food toad as aspart part of ot Its cargo Also signlflt-aiiiy signlflt aiiiy slgnUkautI slgnUkaut - If I . the fact tact that this steady flow ftow of oftoad food toad shipments differs markedly markedlytram . tram ( rom thotc those of World war daysI daysThen days I Then the foodstuffs toodstuffs were In bulk bulkformboatloads form form-boatloads form boatloads - boatloads of ot grain and fresh ) | meats But Out now with British BrlUsh and andAllied Allied shipping shlppine sulTerIng sutTerlng terrible de destnretlon structlon stnretlon there aren t enough bol bot botI bottoms I | toms to transport both bulky bulkyIrma arma /Irma Irma / nients ments and bulky food tood across the thebazlrdous th hazardous baz/lrdous baz lrdous / Atlantic AtlanticSince \ Since < ; Ince the cargo space apace tor bulk bulky bulkyarmaments ; armaments cannot c/lnnot c lnnot / be reduced an anwith and andI andWIUi < I with WIUi the British food toad situation be- be becoming becoming - coming acute food Is being shipped shippedtn shippciIn tn concentrated and dehydrate dehydrated dehydrateform dehydratedform < form Thus It Is carried In thisame the thesame same ships with arms and munl munltiOflS munitlons tiOflS taking taklnj ( up relatively little littleapnce llttlispace llttlispaceThe apnce apnceThe The eKtent extent of at these shipments an anwhat and andwhat < what they meant to the American Americanfarmer Americalfarmer farmer Is shown graphically by the thefollowin th thfollowing < following followin list of lend lent ! lease food purchases pur purchasc chasc . In a very lecent e .e/lt .elt .e e lt < . / seven cvcn l weel'period weelperiod weel'periodAmerican week weekperiod ' period I IAmerican American cheese 20483 20 483 175 175pounds 17 ; , pounds corn starch 35 35820000 35820000poun 820 0Xpoundj ( i poun , frozen trozen eggs 36 648 63Cpounds 630 630polUlds polUlds drl dried d eggs 4 458 650 650pounds G5Cpounds pounds canned flsh 1 I 083 032 052 casu casudebydrated casesdehydrated debydrated soup .oup oup . 4 4400 400 000 poundstoy pounds pounds.oy .oy oy . beans 9 9070000 070 000 pounds driedbeans dried driedbeans beans 40 ' 770 170 000 pounds corn corn.ugar cornsugar .ugar ugar . B II 690 696 000 pounds enzymes enzymes,9 enzymes9 , I Ia a 300 800 pounds poundl dried apricots 0 9 986000 986 986I I , 000 pounds powlds honey 3 657 557 300 poundsenriched pounds poundsenricbed enricbed flour ftour 399 000 pounds poundl can concentrated \ centrated centratedorange orange Juice 92302 92 302 gal galIons I lonl vitamin A 2 547 183 units vltarnin vi viI vitamin I tamin Bl BI 3 965 kilograms peanut peanutbutter peanutbutter butter 1 762 000 pounds pound I lard lard . . 28 28682,720 28682720 28I I 662120 , , ' poundsI poundsNoteManagement pounds poundsNote I Note Note-Management Note Management - Management of the lendlease lend lend11ease food program Is under the theSurplus theSurplus Surplus Marketing administration administrationaided administrationaided 11ease aided by the U S publ'c publc ' health healthservice healthservice service the British ministry ofhealth of ofhealth health and the Anglo American food foodpurchasing foodpurchasing purchasing committee . . . FUEEZING FREIZING : CHINESE .nl nl { . ESE FUNDS FUNDSThere FUNDSThere There Was was one unwritten chapter chapterin chapterin in the story of American reeling freezing ( t < f ffunds 1funds funds of ot those two Oriental neigh neighbors bors Japan and Ilnd Cl Cllna CllnaIt ina inaIt It was published that the tunds tundsof fundsof of friendly trlendly China were fcozen ( rozen I\S I S ISwell \ aswell well as the funds tundl of unfriendly unfriendlyJapan Japan But unpublished was thefact the thefact fact that China for tor tour months had hadbeen hadbeen been asking the tht ' state departmer t tto tto to freeze treeze Its funds tunds but the state de department de- de deparlment - partment parlment had refused retused refusedChina retusedChna China Ch/na Ch na / s request was quite unuFual unuFualtor unufuolfor tor most nations object strenuously strenuouslyto to having their funds frozen ForInstance For ForInstance Instance Switzerland hearing thatshe thnt thntshe she would be Included with Gfr Gpr Gprmany many when Hitler 8 s funds were fr- fr frzen fr frien } - > -ien ien - zen argi argl cd ed tor weeks weeksBut weeksBut But In the case of China manyof many manyof of her funds are In the hands of bigChinese big Chinese merchants mercbants and bankers InShanghai In InShanghai Shanghai who wbo tor for business buslnes8 reasons reasonsare are playing with the Japanese And Andthey they have bave been draining Chinese Chinesecurrency Chinesecurrency currency , from trom the countrySo country countrySo So Roosevelt s special Chineseemissary Chinese Chineseemissary emissary Lauchlln LauchUn Currie was requested re requested quested by Chiang Kal shek to ask askSecretary < ; ecretary of State Hull to freeze freezec.h freezeLh c.h ch . ru.s.e rus.e ruse nt . . ! > . e funds tunds . . This would have hamstrung ham hamstrung strung the pro Japanese ChineseII ChineseI Chinese II v . vii\er vii er 1 \ er Sec Secretary ret a ry Hull refused retused refusedI retusedT I I T TM \ I e Ch n 1b i ( , 'a a " ' Kal I shell shek mode made the re re1 1 t b it 1 I th lh tim Urn s tt It was refused retused retusedIln Iln | In ( act nct .he he the ( . state lepartn ml lnt even evend evendin d ( n ed cd (1 1 II ( t such a 8 request wasn was wasI I wasI I n ar a \r r \ . , 1 > - i r unablv on the grour d Ii IiI I | tl U al at it c e not U l ! i igh Igil dipl dlpl IT allct.1 allct1 aUc aUcd d . 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