DEMANDS ON U.N.R.R.A.

Grey River Argus, 21 February 1945, Page 3

DEMANDS ON U.N.R.R.A.

CHINA’S CUT DOWN BY THREE-QUARTERS

(Roc. 6.30) SYDNEY, Feb. 20 China has asked the U.N.R.R.A. for forty-three million pounds worth of supplies in the first eighteen months after her liberation. This is revealed by the U.N.R.R.A. Deputy Director of requirements and supplies for the south-west Pacific <vea, Doctor Chudson. In an interview after to-day’s sessioi; of the Lapstone conference, Dr. Chudson said the figure asked by China had been found to be so far beyond the U.N.R.R.A.’s capacity that it was reduced to ten million pounds. Dr. Chudson said that the U.N.R.R.A.’s acute problem was a world shortage of shipping, ot cotton, and of rice. The conference adopted a resolution submitted by a French delegate Doctor Boris Eliachef. asking the U.N.R.R.A. administration in Washington to direct the attention ol world shipping control authorities to the paramount importance of completing urgently adequately arrangements to take supplies and person nel to liberated countries. Dr Chudson said that all the Far Eastern countries had submitted figures mostly for the first six months of the year, but some were not yet complete. Dr. Chudson added there was an important aspect, which had not at first been appreciated by some delegates. This was that the UNR.R.A. had two duties, first .to assist countries which foreign exchange, and secondly to referee the distribution of relief supplies among liberated areas, including areas which are operating on their own funds. U.N.R.R.A.’s principle was that no country should receive a lion’s share. ____