Food aid

President Harry S. Truman's radio and television address concluding a program by the Citizens Food Committee, delivered from the White House at 10:50 p.m. The President's address, part of a special broadcast on the food conservation program, was the first of its kind ever televised from the White House.

President Harry S. Truman's remarks at the signing of the Pakistan wheat loan documents. The President spoke at 3:27 p.m. in his office at the White House. On the same day the White House announced that the $15 million loan to Pakistan for the purchase of wheat was being made by the Export-Import Bank, using funds made available under the authority of the Mutual Security Act of 1951, as amended. The release also stated that the shortage was a result of a severe drought in the winter of 1951-52 in western Pakistan, the country's wheat producing area.