Word: reliefers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...might not come in 1947; if it did, neither UNRRA nor any international agency would be on hand to cope with it. That became virtually certain last week when the U.S. State Department turned down a proposal by UNRRA's Fiorello LaGuardia for a $400 million international relief fund to tide the world over the months between UNRRA's end, next Dec. 31, and the resumption of normal trade...
Anyone naive enough to expect that relief shipments to countries in Russia's sphere would produce immediate political results was certain to be disappointed. In the Yugoslav crisis last August, the U.S. public (with some prodding from the Hearst press) cried "ingrate" at Tito's Government, which took and distributed U.S. food, and shot down U.S. planes...
Well aware that other sections of the U.S. public would protest shutting off relief supplies to needy peoples (whether their governments were friendly to the U.S. or not), the State Department proposed an alternative plan: purchase of U.S. food by individual food-short nations. Perhaps significantly, U.S. Acting Secretary of State Dean Acheson mentioned only three countries-Italy, Austria and Greece-as examples of possible beneficiaries under this plan; all three are outside the Russian orbit...
...teeth of the State Department denial that under the new relief plan food would be distributed on the basis of political favor, LaGuardia snorted that the plan would work "like Tammany used to in New York." If LaGuardia was right, the U.S. might make a lot more enemies by withholding food than it had ever made friends by giving...
...FRANK serves as relief man for the entire center of the Eli line. Last week against Princeton, the 19-year-old freshman played center, guard and tackle whenever Howie Odell wanted to rest one of his regular forwards...