WHEAT FOR GERMANY AND AUSTRIA. WORLD POSITION Memorandum by Minister of Food.

6. It is doubtful whether any very significant reduction could be made in the imports of other countries without causing hardship. The distribution suggested in L.P. (45) 181 made substantial arbitrary cuts in the claims of certain countries and since then the position in several of the principal claimant countries has deteriorated. If it were practicable to make detailed surveys in all claimant countries and to compel them to effect economies by diverting coarse grain from animal feeding to the adulteration of wheat for bread making, by maximising indigenous grain collection and in certain cases raising extraction rates it is possible that an overall saving in import requirements of one or two million tons might be secured.