The business of the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization is, in the words of Director General Sir John Boyd Orr, to see to it "that the people of the world will never again suffer from famine." Last week, the business at its meeting in Copenhagen was still chiefly organization. Detailed plans for a world food board and international price stabilization would be submitted to member Governments and ultimately to the U.N. Sir John Orr was actually promoting a kind of worldwide A.A.A. to regulate farming globally. The plan was highly controversial. The U.S. State Department was dead set...
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