GREAT STEP FORWARD

Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 January 1944, Page 3

GREAT STEP FORWARD

TAKEN BY UNITED NATIONS TOWARDS THE ORGANISATION OF RELIEF. REPORT ON SUCCESSFUL FIRST SESSION. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, January 4. A full account of the first session of U.N.R.R.A. (The United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration) from November 10 to December 12 last year has now been issued as a British White Paper. That decisions of vital importance on so vast a subject could be reached in so short a time is largely due to much preliminary work concerning European victims of aggression having already been done. The successful first sesison was a great step forward in the big job of international co-operation necessary to assist the authorities of the liberated countries in immediate relief work in the wake of the liberating armies. This and the emergency rehabilitation of public utilities and services, and equipment to enable the liberated peoples to help themselves and the other United Nations is an immediate short-term preliminary to longer-term post-war reconstruction. I U.N.R.R.A. will become engaged in this relief and rehabilitation on . the spot as. soon as the United Nations military authorities hand them over. The main task of the first session of U.N.R.R.A. was to indicate what kinds of services should be included Jh . the definition “relief and rehabilitation, and to lay down the manner in which U.N.R.R.A. would co-ordinate the demands of-the various countries. It was decided under what conditions and what services U.N.R.R.A. would operate in territories still subject to military control, in territories where local government had been restored, and in enemy territories.