CONTRIBUTIONS TO UNRRA
ONLY NINE NATIONS FULLY PAID UP IMMEDIATE NEED FOR RELIEF SUPPLIES (N.Z. Press Association —Copyright) (Rec, 11 p.m.) NEW YORK, July 19. The Acting-Director-General of UNRRA (Mr Roy Hendrickson) has announced that only nine of the 33 nations expected to contribute 1 per cent, of their nstional incomes to UNRRA’s operating costs had yet done so. They were the United States, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Australia. Canada, Panama, Costa Rica, Brazil, and Iceland. Mr Hendrickson said that invaded nations were not expected to contribute anything, except a share of the administrative expenses. Iraq and Persia were the only nations which, so far, had not contributed to UNRRA's administrative operating fund. Mr Hendrickson, emphasising theimmediate need for relief supplies, said UNRRA hoped to obtain 65.000 dollars worth of surplus American military stocks before 1946.
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Press, Volume LXXXI, Issue 24624, 21 July 1945, Page 7
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