U.N.R.R.A SERVICES

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 88, Issue 4, 6 January 1944, Page 5

U.N.R.R.A SERVICES

RELIEF OF EUROPEAN VICTIMS Recd. 6 p.m. Rugby, Jan. 4. A full account of the first session of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration from November 10 to December 1 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 was largely due to the fact that much preliminary work on the requirements of the European victims of aggression had been already done.

The successful first session was a great step forward in the big job of international co-operation necessary to assist the authorities in the liberated countlies in immediate relief work in the wake of the liberating armies. This and the emergency rehabilitation of public utilities ana services, agricultural and industrial equipment to enable the liberated peoples to help themselves and other United Nations as early as possible is the immediate short-term preliminary to longer term post-war reconstruction. The 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 over this task. The main task at the first session was to indicate what kind of services should be included in the definition “relief and rehabilitation,” to lay down the manner in which the 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.

Services which U.N.R.R.A. would provide in any or all of these territories were also defined. It also laid the manner wherein the U.N.R.R.A. would collaborate with the Anglo-United States combined boards and governmental supply agencies of the main supplying countries. The effect of the decisions was to give the director-general the necessary authority see that all countries requiring reliet received a fair share of the supplies available.—B.O.W.