ONLY PARTLY MET
UNRRA'S REQUIREMENTS Received Wednesday, 8.20 p.m. NE vV YORK, March 20. Mr. Herbert Lehman, the retlring Director General of Unrra, toid Unrra Council that the world musfc return to wartime rationing. Ile said. "i know that lur greater sacr.uses •' -.n be rnade withoiu injury by ali e-_port ing countrios, such as the Luited Btate.i, Canada, South America, Australia a-.u N ew Zealand. ' ' Unrra 's needs, he continued, were only partly met. The Oonibined Pood Board has allocated Unrra only 43,00u .metric tons of fats for the second quarter of 1946, instead of the requestod 203,000 tons. He added: "I am convinced tha. those countries which fought the enem.v deserve to be considered first. ' ' Sir Carl Eerendsen (New Zealand) said that, if there must be suhermg, i. should be at the expense of Europoau aggressors and those in the Far East. A Rqssiau deiegate cnticised food distribution methods, saying tha. Spain and Portugal, both neutrals, would receive almost ag much fats aua oils in 1946 as Belgium. The coal co.il UUttee had turned down a request from Yugoslavia, but had allocated coal co a formor enemy country.
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Chronicle (Levin), 21 March 1946, Page 5
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