OTHER COUNTRIES FURNISHING ASSISTANCE TO YUGOSLAVIA

Mr. RABAUT. Speaking about this credit, what other countries, if any, are furnishing any assistance to Yugoslavia?

Mr. PERKINS. Creditwise, not dollarwise, the English and the Germans are, and the French are talking about it, and so are the Belgians and some of the other countries.

Mr. RABAUT. Has anybody done anything?

Mr. PERKINS. Yes, they have given them credit. Germany has established the equivalent of a $35,000,000 credit.

Mr. RABAUT. $35,000,000?

Mr. PERKINS. Yes, and there is a total 16,000,000-pound credit from the United Kingdom.

Mr. RABAUT. Who is this credit from?

Mr. PERKINS. From the United Kingdom.

Mr. TRUESDELL. That is not credit for food assistance, but total credit.

Mr. RABAUT. Total credit?

Mr. PERKINS. Yes, sir.

POPULATION

Mr. RABAUT. How about the population of Yugoslavia, say, in 1917?

Mr. PERKINS. It is about 16,000,000, I think. It is little bit more or less than 16,000,000. It is 16,400,000.

Mr. RABAUT. It was 15,751,953 in March of 1948.

Mr. PERKINS. It is now estimated at 16,400,000.

FOOD PRODUCTION

Mr. RABAUT. Now, what was the total production of foodstuffs as of the nearest date to this? Do you have those figures?

Mr. PERKINS. Yes; we have those figures here, too.

Mr. TABER. Do you have these things in shape so that you could pass them around? Do you have copies of them available? Mr. PERKINS. Yes.

Mr. RABAUT. This table is headed "Gross production of basic food commodities in Yugoslavia for specified years." Without objection we will put this table on gross production of basic food commodities in the record at this point, and this table on Yugoslav population for specified years.

(The matter referred to is as follows:)

Gross production of basic food commodities in Yugoslavia for specified years

1 Includes production estimates for the area acquired from Italy in 1947 in order to make data comparable with postwar years.

Estimates for 1950 and preliminary.

Includes spelt, millet, maslin, and buckwheat.

4 Not available.

Revised Yugoslav estimate.

• Yugoslav estimate.

Sources: Data for prewar years are based on official Yugoslav and Italian statistics; postwar data are estimates of the Office of Foreign Agricultural Relations.

ticki Belten Stanovistvo, vol. 1, No. 1, July 1950. 1949, 1950, and 1951 estimates of the Department of State

Mr. PERKINS. I was just going to point out what these figures indicated.

Mr. RABAUT. All right; go ahead.

Mr. PERKINS. They simply show that of the principal grains, the average from 1933 to 1937 was less than they were producing after the war.

Mr. RABAUT. Yes.

Mr. PERKINS. And, of course, 1950 shows a substantial drop in those figures.

Mr. RABAUT. Yes; and that drop was due to what?

Mr. PERKINS. Drought.

POPULATION TREND

Mr. RABAUT. Is the population about the same as it was?

Mr. PERKINS. If you look at the bottom there it shows 16,400,000 as the present estimate.

Mr. RABAUT. So, it is practically holding its own, or increasing a little bit?

Mr. PERKINS. It has gone up a little bit. It went down during the war and it has come back up since.

Mr. RABAUT. During a war the population can change a lot.
Mr. PERKINS. Yes.

Mr. RABAUT. Now, as to the crops referred to and the grains referred to, evidently there are two types of crops that they are deficient in, and I noticed your reference to the commodities in which they are deficient, in some of which we cannot meet their full requests. I think you said something about cutting the lard request; did you not?

Mr. PERKINS. We cut back the request on two or three items a little bit because we were not certain that they were absolutely necessary to them in this situation. It was not a question of whether we could meet it or not, but we were not at all certain that their request was justified for the full amounts.

EXPORT OF FOOD PRODUCTS

Mr. RABAUT. Have you any tables here showing what their food exports were in 1947?

Mr. PERKINS. Yes; I think we have.

Mr. TRUESDELL. This table shows both the exports and imports. Mr. RABAUT. Without objection, I think we had better put this table in the record at this point.

(The matter referred to is as follows:)

76047 50 -pt. 2 -31

1 Data incomplete owing to lack of published Yugoslav official statistics in the postwar
ments.
years. Figures are based on foreign-trade statistics of other countries and trade agree-

2 Less than 500 bushels.

Includes some rye.

4 Includes all grains not separately given.

Office of Foreign Agricultural Relations, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Dec. 8, 1950.
Source: Prewar data from official Yugoslav statistics; Postwar, see footnote 1.

5 Includes rough, broken and milled rice in terms of milled.

• Includes fresh, prepared, and canned vegetables.

7 Principally beans and peas.

8 Less than 1 ton.

Includes bacon, fat, and lard.

10 Includes eggs in shell and liquid eggs in terms of eggs in the shell.