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THE fourth annual conference of the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations will open in Washington on November 15. The conference will review the World food situation and the technical activities of the Food and Agriculture Organisation. It will also consider major constitutional, administrative and financial issues, particularly the budget for the next financial year. The United Kingdom delegation will be led by Mr. Tom Williams, Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries; the alternate leader is Mr. R. H. Franklin, deputy secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries. Among other members of the delegation will be Sir Ralph Enfield (chief economic adviser) and Mr. A. T. A. Dobson (fisheries adviser), both of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries; Dr. N. 0. Wright (chief scientific adviser), of the Ministry of Food; Sir Gerard Clauson, assistant under-secretary of State in the Colonial Office; Mr. P. N. R. Butcher, assistant secretary in the Ministry of Health; Mr. A. N. Duckham, agricultural attache to the British Embassy; and Mr. G. R. Oake, head of the British Supply Office (Food) in Washington. In addition, Mr. James Turner, president of the National Farmers Union, and Mr. E. G. Gooch, president of the National Union of Agricultural Workers, will serve as advisers to the delegation.
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Food and Agriculture Organisation. Nature 162, 728 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/162728a0
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