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...pact and the increasing solidarity of the United Nations with Russia. They believe that Germany is their bulwark against Communist doctrine and Russian post-war political influence. Both are increasingly dependent on Germany for trade. From the U.S. Portugal has received slimmer & slimmer shipments of oil, tobacco, fertilizer and foodstuff. Spain has been getting shiploads of wheat for her sullen peons and rickety children...
...citizens cannot legally buy a pound of sugar this week anywhere. Next week they will line up at their schoolhouses for rationing books, and on May 5 a new U.S. era will begin. For the first time, in the land of plenty, a common foodstuff will be doled out on ration coupons: one-half pound a week of sugar for each citizen until the end of June, an undetermined amount after that...
...hope for much this year, either. According to British customs regulations, "unsolicited gifts, whether they include rationed foods or not, may be received from abroad by parcel post addressed to individuals: but no parcel may exceed five pounds gross weight or contain more than two pounds of any one foodstuff." Gift parcels must not be sent more often than is "reasonable" (interpreted generally as once a month). Parcels from the U.S. that don't conform to these regulations are confiscated and distributed to charity...
They needed both. There was no question about that. Even before the war, Europe* imported 15% of its foodstuff. A late spring, heavy rains and a poor harvest in 1940, the mobilization of armies, the gigantic and violent transfers of millions of civilians from one area to another, the withholding from production of millions of acres, the devastation of war and the looting of the Nazis vastly increased their dependency. The 78,000,000 bushels of wheat that Poland once produced had been cut down-nobody knew how much. More than half of the wheat-growing area of France (which...
...Mclntyre de Pencier 44 years ago near New Orleans, French-Irish Fletcher Wiley was long a jack-of-all-trades: "mucked in the mines, worked on the railroad, was a salesman, shipped on a freighter, did some research in chemistry developing two processes now in general use in the foodstuff industry...