Word: reliefers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Dorothy T. Pearse [TIME, Letters, July1] expresses sympathy for the hungry of Europe and grows impatient with delays on the British loan and on food relief, I agree with her. But when she says she feels "a sense of shame at being an American . . ." then...
...Stop all UNRRA supplies . . . till the distribution can be put entirely into foreign hands. . . . Before War II, relief committees did a fine job, but always with a foreigner in control in every committee...
...first year of world famine relief (ending June 30), the U.S. promised to ship 10,723,860 tons of wheat, and actually shipped 10,750,670 tons...
...face of it, that did not make sense. But behind the tragic discrepancy of the two stern facts loomed an old, notorious situation; since November 1945, UNRRA had poured $132,250,000 worth of food, machinery and various relief supplies, from fishing boats to water buffalo, into the country. But only a trickle had got where they were needed most. The bulk of the supplies piled up in warehouses, filtered down into the depths of the black market, enriched the morass of government corruption and "squeeze" (China's term for "honest graft...
...control bespeaks the Administration's lack of faith in the effectiveness of any halfway measures. When government fails, the power of restraint passes on to the larger business organizations. But no one can be encouraged by the callousness to the common interest illustrated with the "Let 'em go on relief" philosophy of Mr. Hayes of Hayes-Bick, or the "Take it out on Labor" doctrine of David Lawrence, or the pressure apparently put on the press to keep from the public the ominous picture of worthless values made up by figures on basic commodity prices. The consumer...