RUTHLESS ENEMY

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 137, 7 December 1944, Page 6

RUTHLESS ENEMY

DESPOILING OF OCCUPIED TERRITORIES

RUGBY, December 5.

An official report of the United States' participation in the operations of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration has been transmitted to Congress by President Roosevelt.

The President remarked in a covering letter that the conditions which prevailed in many liberated territories had proved, unfortunately, fully as desperate as earlier reports had indicated. The enemy had been ruthless beyond measure. The liberated peoples would be helped by UNRRA so that they could help themselves. They would be helped to gain strength to repair the destruction and devastation of war and to meet the tremendous task of reconstruction which lay ahead.

The report states that in Europe alone 100,000,000 people have been freed from Germany after from three to five years of Nazi looting, persecution, and brutality. It mentions shortages of food and clothing in a number of the liberated countries, stating that in occupied Europe almost as many people died from exposure due to lack of adequate clothing as died from starvation. It is estimated that more than 20,000,000 men, women, and children in Europe have been driven or have fled from their homes and been separated from their families.

Up to September 30, UNRRA personnel located at the headquarters office in Washington, the European regional office in London, and in Egypt France, Greece, Italy, North Africa, and elsewhere numbered approximately 1700.—8.0. W.