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...true that the Soviet Union was the only country that came to the assistance of war-ravaged Poland. First of all, Poland received aid from UNRRA amounting to a half-billion dollars. Besides, at the order of the Kremlin, the Polish Communist government rejected aid offered under the Marshall Plan. It is equally untrue that the Communist regime never tried to endanger the church. On the contrary, Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski and scores of other Catholic priests spent years in prison. It is also not true that the Communist regime is for free movement of peoples, ideas and information. Travel...
Died. Lieut. General Sir Frederick E. Morgan, 73, Eisenhower's deputy chief of staff during World War IIs Normandy invasion, who served briefly as administrator of the U.N.'s relief agency, UNRRA, in postwar Germany, but was forced to resign when he outraged his boss, Fiorello La Guardia, by bluntly charging that Soviet spies were using UNRRA as a cover; of a stroke; in Northwood, England...
...succeeded gloriously or were abandoned in panic. Back in 1942, when Congress voted funds for the Institute of Inter-American Affairs, a technical-assistance operation for Latin America, it was only trying to combat pro-Nazi sentiment in Central and South America. Next, the U.S. chipped in to establish UNRRA, a desperate charity aimed at stopping hunger in a war-destroyed world. It filled a lot of bellies and the pockets of countless profiteers. In 1947, President Truman, still answering fire alarms, rushed arms and aid to Greece and Turkey. A year later, not thinking primarily in terms of economic...
...founder member of the Colombo Plan in 1950, and since that time we have contributed under the Colombo Plan about $30 million to economic development projects in South and Southeast Asia. New Zealand also has a record of substantial support for the assistance programs of the United Nations, including UNRRA, UNICEF, Palestinian and other refugees, the United Nations Technical Assistance Program, Korean Relief and Rehabilitation, as well as the many aid activities of the specialized agencies of the United Nations. Recently, we pledged support for technical assistance for Africa...
...nationwide organization to help the poor, during the war ran holiday camps for children who had been evacuated from the cities, and at night served in stealth as a chaplain with the Belgian resistance. Then, one day in 1949. he heard a lecture by a U.S. UNRRA official describing the plight of Europe's D.P.s. "It was such heartbreak," recalls Georges Pire, "such despair that it suddenly seemed to me that there was nothing I could do-except do everything I could to remedy all that...