Word: lehman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last Word. UNRRA's director general, Herbert Lehman, warned the meeting: "If UNRRA fails in its mission, the name of the United Nations will be a mockery in Europe." UNRRA had not yet failed, but its prospects were poor...
...lean years that followed, Miss Roche wheedled concessions out of other R.M.F. stockholders, staved off bankruptcy with loans from eastern friends (among them UNRRA Director Herbert H. Lehman). She went on paying the highest mine wages in the state, sent most of her salary ($12,000 at the peak) back into the business. Though most fellow Denverites thought her wealthy, she lived in a two-room walkup-except during 1934-37; when she was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury...
...kind words alone were not enough for Herbert Lehman, surveying Europe and weighing its relief needs against UNRRA's means to meet them. Normally too easygoing for his own and UNRRA's good, he had been stung by widespread criticism of his giant relief agency. In defense of UNRRA, he turned to the attack...
...governments of nations which "still have what to the famished people of liberated Europe must seem like the wild est sort of luxury." And these govern ments were not living up to their commitments. Describing the complete con fusion into which UNRRA's supply posi tion had fallen, Lehman said: "Availabilities change hour by hour and it is now practically impossible to plan any long-range program and fulfill it." Unless sacrifices were made, he implied, the win ter's "fateful deadline" might well bring starvation, political unrest and violence...
...Herbert Lehman and his lumbering agency had plenty of faults of their own to answer for. But the nations unwilling to sacrifice scarce food might well ponder the whole question of UNRRA's existence. No relief agency at all might be better than one which promised much but could deliver little...