E.C.I.T.O. SHORT OF FUNDS
FINANCIAL DIFFICULTIES BLAMED ON SOVIET (Rec. 7 p m.) LONDON, September 4. Mr E. R. Hondelink, director-general of the European Central Inland Transport Organisation, which will come under the control of the United Nations on October 1, said to-day that Russia’s failure and that of other countries under Moscow’s influence to honour their financial obligations had put the organisation in a serious position. “We have had to reduce staff and have been unable to pay some members of the staff who resigned,” he said. Mr Hondelink added that Russia owed £82,000, Poland £12.000, and Jugoslavia £4OOO. These countries had consistently tried to limit the organisation’s functions by reducing its budget
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25282, 6 September 1947, Page 9
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