UNRRA UNITS
ANGLO-AMERICAN SCRAPIRON PUSH NEEDED AT THE TOP (Rec. 1.30 p.m.) BERLIN,. Dec. IS. Lieutenant-General Sir Frederick Morgan, who, as deputy-chief of Staff in the early days of Supreme Headquarters of the Allied Expeditionary Force, was one of first planners of the Normandy invasion, is completely reorganising the operation of Unrra units in Germany.
The reorganisation, he says, has “grown up backwards,” and now, when faced with the enormous problem, of dealing with the welfare of 1,000,000 idle and displaced persons, it ist in a “complete mess with neither organisation nor discipline.”
General Morgan points' out that with a staff of only 5000 persons for the whole of Germany, Unrra is 'operating on the “thinnest shoestring you ever saw in your life, and with a transport system which is only AngloAmerican scrapiron.” General Morgan considers that Unrra personnel must be doubled. He wants 1000 British and 1000 Americans for field work. An even bigger need is for “two-fisted he-men to sit at the top and push this thing along.” He sent A jnessage to President Truman urging him to assign “one of the good American generals” to Unrra.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 66, Issue 59, 19 December 1945, Page 3
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