Show India's Hunger Told in Bread Wheat Loan Is Equal To 4 Billion Loaves Measured in America's emergency food loan to India recently approved by both houses of congress will equal more than one-pound Each loaf will be more food than a peasant of northern Bihar now eats in two By enabling India to buy two million or roughly of American wheat in American the loan may help to keep some people from starvation this On the threshold of India's diet already includes herbs and tree dried grass and boiled to a watery broth that can fool the stomach only for a Nearly a third of the people of the Indian republic are on They are living on a dally handful of rough grain grain sorghums such as and or coarsely-milled Still vivid in Indians' memory Is the great Bengal famine of 1943 which went almost unnoticed by a world concerned with Japanese control of Burmese rice stores and a breakdown in India's food distribution system caused the death of three to f-ur million people many more by disease brought on by |