DIFFICULT ISSUES

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 68, 18 September 1944, Page 4

DIFFICULT ISSUES

UNRRA SESSION

Rec. 9 a.m.

MONTREAL, Sept. 17.

Welcoming the delegates at the opening of the second session of the council of UNRRA (United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration), Mr. Herbert Lehman, director of the United States office, said that the Allied military successes had caused the administration to concentrate its v energies increasingly on the final stages of preparation for its task. The Montreal session would consider the activities of the fully-functioning body. The Canadian Minister to the United States, Mr. L. B. Pearson, was elected chairman. The Montreal correspondent of the "New York Times" says difficult issues to be resolved include relief for Italy as a former enemy, the relations between UNRRA, the military authorities, and the various Governments concerned in repatriating those who have been displaced, and also details concerning supplies. According to the Associated Press of Great Britain, the European members, led by Norway, propose to oppose solidly relief for Italy, emphasising that Allied relief for Italy would leave the way open for relief for Germany. The New Zealand delegate, Mr. C. A. Berendsen, told the Canadian Press that although the Dominion was rationing eggs at the rate of one per person per week, it was prepared to continue general rationing after the war to assist rehabilitating the war-torn world. •