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...only means of making possible a democratic system of socialism instead of one enforced by the USSR, while Sweezy, his ex-pupil and a former associate professor of economics, demanded the plan be junked. "Our obligation is to help all of Europe through some organization such as the UNRRA," he said...
This week the President again found a way to postpone the ticklish problem of a special session. After a 2½-hour conference with his Cabinet Food Committee and eleven congressional leaders (notable absentees: Senators Robert Taft and Alben Barkley, Speaker Joe Martin), he announced his decision. Unused UNRRA funds could carry Europe (principally Italy and France) to Dec. 1. Meanwhile he was asking the Appropriations and Foreign Relations committees of both Houses of Congress to come to Washington. To see Europe through the winter, the President estimated that the U.S. would have to dig up $580 million...
...plan would be turned into a gigantic boomerang. The stock of the United States would sink to an as yet unplumbed depth. And this is by no means an inconceivable possibility, for the appropriations involved will be staggering. They will dwarf the two and a quarter billions spent on UNRRA. The Second Session of the Eightieth Congress may be more than somewhat reluctant to dig so deeply into the nation's pocket at a time when it will be mainly preoccupied with jockeying for position in the All America Sweepstakes of November...
...formal farewell party, the city of Minsk marked the demise of an organization which had also contributed to the Soviet people's wellbeing, and that of 15 other nations. After 3½ years of work, UNRRA ceased operations (except in China) this week. It had spent nearly $3 billion, 72% of which had been contributed...
...this time, Moische had a wife and child; with them he came to the UNRRA camp in Berlin. He did not sit back and wait for help. His world had fashioned Moische to be a black marketeer; he was a good...