U.N.R.R A. IN A MESS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 89, Issue 300, 20 December 1945, Page 5

U.N.R.R A. IN A MESS

TRANSPORT IN GERMANY Berlin, Dec. 18. Leut-General Sir Frederick Morgan, who, as deputy Chief of Staff in the early days of S.H.A.E.F., was one of the first planners of the Normandy invasion is completely reorganising the operation of U.N.R.R.A. units in Germany. The organisation, he says, has “grown up backwards,” and now, when it is faced with the enormous problem of dealing with the welfare of 1,000,000 idle, displaced persons, it is “a complete mess, with neither organisation nor discipline.” Lieut.-General Morgan points out. that with a .staff of only 5000 persons for the whole of Germany, U.N.R.R.A. is operating on ‘the thinnest shoestring you ever saw in your life, with a transport system which is only a conglomeration of scrap, iron.” Lieut.-General Morgejj considers that U.N.R.R.A.’s personnel must be doubled. He wants 1000 British and 1000 Americans for field work. An even bigger need is for “two-fisted he men to sit at the top and push this thing along.” He has sent a message to President Truman urging h m to assign “one of the good American generals” to U.N.R.R.A.