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HOLD FOR RELEASE
HOLD FOR RELEASE
HOLD FOR RELEASE
JULY 3, 1947
CONFIDENTIAL: The following statement by the President and the
accompanying report to the President by the Cabinet Committee
on World Food Programs MUST BE HELD IN STRICT CONFIDENCE UNTIL
RELEASED.
NOTE:
Release is automatic for all newspapers, radió
commentators and news broadcasters at 6:00 P.M., E.D.T. Saturday,
July 5, 1947.
PLEASE GUARD AGAINST PREMATURE PUBLICATION OR
RADIO
CHARLES G. ROSS
Secretary to the President
STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT
TRUMANDAY
NARA
The Cabinet Committee on World Food Programs, which I
appointed last Septenber to coordinate the activities of the United
States in shipping food abroad, ha: submitted a report that should
gratify every American.
To meet urgent human needs abroad, nearly 18 million long
tons of grai n and other food were exported by the United States in
the year ending June 30, 1947. This is the largest total of food
ever shipped from one country in a single year.
Our country was blessed last year with the most bountiful
harvest in our history. Our farmers worked hard to produce record
crops The food industries, the railroads, the shipping companies,
and the Government agencies cooperated to make possible the movement
of food on schedule from American farms to foreign ports.
But we must not lose sight of the fact that even the great
efforts of this and other exporting countries fell short of meeting
the world's urgent post-war needs for food. Many millions of people
are still desperately hungry.
The Cabinet Committee reports that crop prospects abroad
have been reduced by the severe winter in Northern Europe, and that
in the months ahead substantial shipments of food -- especially wheat --
must be continued.
Within our ability to share our resources, we will continue
to
do our part to relieve human suffering and to help other countries
to help themselves. It is th e course we must follow.
The arrangements under which it was possible for us to
ship such large quantities of food abroad are, therefore, being
continued, I have asked the Cabinet Committee and the Coordinator
of Emergency Export Programs to carry on for the coming year. The
Assistant to the President will, as in the past, take all possible
steps to help expedite this program.
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