Show Indias India's Hunger I Told in Bread Wheat Loan Is Equal To 4 Billion Loaves Measured in bread Americas America's emergency food loan to India recently recently re re- re approved by both houses of congress will equal more than pound one-pound loaves Each loaf loat will be more food than thana a peasant of northern Bihar now eats In two days By enabling India to buy two million million mil mil- lion tons or roughly bushels of at American wheat in American markets the loan may help to keep some people from tram mass starvation this summer On the threshold of ot famine Indias India's diet already includes herbs and locusts tree leaves twigs dried grass and weeds boiled to a watery broth that can fool the stomach only for a while Nearly a third of at the people of at the Indian republic are on an rationing They are living on a daily handful of ot rough grain rice grain rice grain sorghums such as jowar and andraga ragi raga or milled coarsely-milled wheat Still vivid in Indians Indians' memory I is the great Bengal famine tamine of af which went almost unnoticed by a 8 world concerned with war Japa Japanese nese nose control of at Burmese rice and a breakdown in Indias India's food distribution distribution dis dis- distribution system caused the dealt of at three to four faur million people di dl directly directly many more moire by disease brought on by malnutrition y |