The tensions on the grain market at present are due partly to the interventions of the USSR. In many third world countries, the state of food reserves still depends on whether or not they have access to the international grain market. But the state of the grain market may in its turn depend on soviet purchases. If, in the long term, the efforts of the Soviet leaders seem likely to give results, in the short term, in view of the difficulties encountered, the USSR will continue to intervene on the grain market which may well find itself disrupted for some time.
