OCR Text |
Show Imports Needed to Round European Diet Home-produced food in Europe is estimated to be at least 25 per cent less than in prewar years, but if food Imports to Europe equal prewar imports, im-ports, the average person should receive about 80 per cent of his prewar food supply. H. C. M. Case, agricultural economist, reported after returning return-ing from the continent. Case asserted that if the average European received 80 per cent of his prewar food supply, there would be no starvation. However, he pointed point-ed out that it would be impossible to distribute food equally either between be-tween countries or within any one country. He emphasized that the food situation would be critical in some areas where population is dense and where transportation is badly crippled. |