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Across the snow-swept plains of below-zero Alberta, a grain farmer drove 75 miles to Calgary to place an overseas telephone call to Budapest. At the expense of the Calgary Herald, Mike Kadar, 47, an immigrant from Hungary 28 years ago, sought to talk, brother to brother, to none other than Janos Kadar, No. 1 stooge of the Soviet puppet regime in Hungary. He had small hopes of shoring up younger brother Janos' spine, but other Hungarian-Canadians had besought Mike Kadar to try to intercede in behalf of their valiant relatives still writhing under Russian guns...
...potato and sugar-beet crop in ground this winter. Thousands of collective farms, no longer under police supervision, have been abandoned, their equipment and animals stolen as farmers hasten to rebuild their own farms. In a country which normally imports up to 1,500,000 tons of grain a year, and where the worker spends 90% of his wages on food, a food crisis threatens. The situation is worst in the western lands, formerly German, where the Polish farmers brought from the east have never felt at home, and the collectives, built around the old Junker estates, have never prospered...
...Russians had agreed to forget Poland's past debts, which were largely imaginary. On the credit side was a Russian loan of $175 million spread over the next two years and a promise of 1,400,000 tons of grain "to help our present difficuties...
When the news of Anglo-French military action hit Chicago's mammoth Board of Trade, a flood of orders overwhelmed the grain pits, turned them into a bedlam as traders bawled bids and offers. Wheat, corn. rye. cotton, soybeans, lard-just about everything except onions-soared on the prospects of war shortages, sent the Dow-Jones Commodity Futures Index up 1.66 points to 165.79 for the largest one-day advance in 2½ months...
Freighter Breakout. The war was not the only reason for action; there was an expectation that even if the Mideast trouble should be settled, large shipments of commodities would be sent into the area by the U.S. The Government had already scheduled a vast surplus-grain program for India, was negotiating a wheat agreement with Israel and talking of shipping food-mostly wheat-to Poland. Hungary, and other rebellious Russian satellites. To transport the vast amount of commodities the Maritime Administration last week released thirty 10,000-ton wartime freighters from its reserve fleet...