European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 2, 1966, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes april 1966 the Challenge of population but not food output editors note grim Mer even than War in Viet Nam is the worldwide War against defeat in this War would Lead to the greatest catastrophe in human history and Man is losing the this is the second of three by lofts caskets March 31 up Many sober scientists believe the gravest crisis now confronting the human race can be summarized in just six words too Many people not enough William Henry Sebrell professor of Public health and nutrition it Columbia universe uses a few additional words to explain the crisis we Are engaged in a race Between the increase in the worlds population and the increase in food As built new image labor Victory in British vote personal Triumph for Wilson april 1 a you know labor government was the victorious slogan of the labor party in Brit Ains National More than anyone har old Leader of the la made that slogan pos even before he became Brit Ains third socialist prime min ister on Wilson set out to prove that the la borates represented the Middle and working classes and were no longer the cloth capped revolutionaries of the Wilson made this the theme of his 17month government so at to build a new image of the party before calling new elections in a bid to increase his three vote majority in Parlia ment the labor government backed Many patriotic issues of policy which it might have been expected la shun under the old defense of the Pound Sterling against devaluation became a Cardinal principle of the governments financial and economic Wilson fought the left Wing of his own parly to Back policy in Viet Nam although he worked to negotiate an end to tight relations with Washington was a Basic Prin Ciple of Wilsons foreign and the labor government took Over All the old Imperial defense commitments East of Suez it inherited from the conservatives and made them its honouring these commitments while making every Effort to reduce waste in spend ing became the Core of the nations defense at the same Wilsons ought through despite Ibert Liny a wide Range of social reforms prom lied to Ikeler im4 former Secretary of state Dean Acheson once said that Britain had lost an Empire but failed to find a new the same applies to Britain conservative party today As the traditional supporters of Crown and country taste the ashes of their Edward has lost the biggest political Battle of his life because he had too Many difficult things to Tell his people and his he had to put them across too quickly from the View Point of perhaps too the British people had neither the time nor the inclination to hear my Many in his party were not sure he was the right Man to say Heath took Over a divided party Only eight months ago from the last of the tory sir Alec Douglas a self made spokes Man for Britain new techno was set at the head of a party whose polished Eton accents still proclaim that Are bred and trained to Rule the heaths Job was to persuade his party to earn its passage Back to Power with new it had to aban Don its traditional role As the party of not the election Campaign found Heath ready with the measures Britain into the common Reform the unions from top to Force Industry to break away from its Imperial past and compete for Reform the welfare state so benefits go mainly to the they were measures for a even an abrasive the tory paternalism of Disraeli was so was the divine spark of the tories greatest Leader of the but labor was ready with the men Wilson and his Cabi the parties traditional of we Are losing the statistics could be multiplied endlessly to document be Brulls warning that the number of Mouths to be fed is increasing faster than the amount of food to go into one figure will suffice to underscore the nature of the Basic world food production in 1965 was exactly the same As in but it had to be divided among 63 million More if present birth rates Are the worlds Popula Tion will grow from billion to billion help can now and and to per cent of the increase will take place in the undeveloped nations of Africa and latin where More than 2 billion people Are already existing somewhere Between chronic hunger and actual the increase of the worlds population is so awesome As to seem said Irene Tauber of Princeton universe Tys office of population unless effective action is taken at once to bring roles were suddenly and the result was perhaps the most tops Turvy Campaign in modern British the conservatives were led by an labor by a prag Heath turned toward the Wilson ran on his the prime minister hardly raised a new Issue or advanced in Mann Market Nyrl Nelv there is tip Hope of soil Long Wariq common and Only be cause a Surprise statement by the French forced the Issue into the labors was not an inspiring but it was not meant to it was meant to Wilson ended his Campaign As he began it with an Appeal for firm and determined govern he never mentioned the word socialism if Wilson fought the ism Campaign like a Kennedy on a pledge to get Britain moving he fought this one like a Johnson and a key word was Consen to the Only real Issue was Harold Wilson him self Britain Clever Little As the weekly economist called food some overpopulated such As Japan and have recognized this fact and Are beginning to take measures to curb the multiplication of human and the United states after years of backing away from possible is beginning to offer technical advice and assistance to nations which embark on popu lation control during the coming fiscal the Agency for International development Aid plans to spend about 120 million on population control that Small drop in the Federal budget but f o u r limes As much As this country has devoted to population control in any or Crelous scientists that any population control Effort now under Way or in sight will be too Little and too late to head off a worldwide food even if a crash program of Fertility control were to be instituted said Robert Cook of the population reference i h c population of the world would continue to increase very rapidly for the next decade or Long other authorities agree that population control even it undertaken on an in finitely larger will take a generation or so to achieve in the Short term of the next 10 to is birth control cannot have a really major said Raymond vice president for re state University of new improved agriculture will have to be the solution to the food population problem during the next 10 to 15 Secretary of agriculture Orvllle Freeman noted that throughout most of Man has expanded Supply along with the Pobu ton simply by expanding area under Bat he says this period of history is now drawing to a the hard fact is that Man is fast running out of arable land on this a few million acres Here and there remain to be very High but new land under cultivation cannot account Lor More than a Small part of the projected increase in world food agricultural scientists Are in Almous in t h e conviction that vast increases in out put per acre can be achieved in nearly All of the Foo Short developing simply by applying the techniques which have become commonplace of farms in America and Western All South America to us ing less fertilizer than hol says George Bora Strom of Michigan state uni India has 50 times As Many people to feed As but uses Only half As much fertilizer is Only one exam with new disease resistant Plant hybrid modern irrigation techniques and such Elemen tary farm tools As steel Penn and developing coun tries could triple or quadruple the productivity of their farms within a comparatively Short to work this Miracle win take Money and Roger Revoc of Harvard University estimated that a Capi Tal investment of Iso billion to needed Over the next 15 Yean to improve la developing Ite said that at least one third of the total will have to come from the United states and other wealthy Revelle figured that the Foo deficit nations of Africa and Latina Erica will need the services of my to agricultural specialists from highly developed coun next americas european coition army Navy air Force James Usa William Coleman u1ap Arnold Burnett Elmer Frank Henry Epstein Deuty min film bpm production circulation Victory wave British prime minister Harold Wilson Waves to supporters after his election Victory photo