§ Colonel WEDGWOODasked the Prime Minister whether the supplies of food which, as stated by Mr. Hoover, Director-General of Food Relief, have been delivered in certain European ports for the relief of the liberated populations of Europe, amounting up to the end of February to 750,000 tons, have reached the areas for which they are intended; and whether the peoples of Poland and of the independent nations formerly part of the Austrian Empire are treated in Mr. Hoover's statement as liberated populations?
§ Mr. McCURDYI have been asked to reply. The Food Controller is informed by his representative on the Supreme Economic Council that Mr. Hoover confirms the published statement to which the hon. and gallant Member refers; and that the answer to both parts of the question is in the affirmative.