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...private rice supplies. Minor officials of CNRRA-UNRRA's Chinese extension-are afraid to make decisions. They will watch a village starve and report it back to UNRRA as dramatic evidence of famine and the need for more help, instead of sending the villagers the few sacks of flour that would save them...
Tickets for Life. CNRRA gets food to hungry people in two ways: 1) through porridge lines thrice daily, and in "soft rice" (flour and vegetable paste) kitchens set up in old temples or deserted buildings; 2) as pay for work on highway-building projects. The Pao Chang (district political bosses) give out tickets for porridge lines "on the basis of greatest need." Women and children by the score, without the magic tickets, stand outside the kitchens and beg in vain...
...Flour milling for domestic use cut to 75% of that ground in the corresponding 1945 period-the remaining 25% to be earmarked for export...
...would enough wheat come out to make the 25% milling-for-export order more than a mere hope? Millers were skeptical. Few large millers are now operating at 75% of their 1945 capacity rate; many are producing less than half the flour they turned out at this time last year...
This week U.S. housewives would begin to feel the pinch. A cut in bread deliveries was the bakers' first step. Until bakers could set their ovens and machines to produce lighter loaves, until they could shift more flour from pastries and other products, there would probably be a bread shortage in many communities. But all these measures were by hindsight. They would add no kernels to the grain the U.S. had promised to deliver to the famine lands. At best, they would do no more than avert a failure to meet U.S. commitments...