Help for Greece
putes, big and small, is that someone else pays for them. A man quarrels with his wife and his children pay; two statesmen quarrel and two millions pay; an employer quarrels with.an employee and a whole city pays. And so it goes on through the whole range of human weakness and folly. However it begins, it ends the same way, with everybody suffering and no one quite innocent. It is not likely that one side or the other is entirely without fault in the impasse between CORSO and the Patriotic Councils-that one group has made no errors of judgment of any kind and the other done nothing right. Everybody wants to help; but the Greek people need personal assistance as well as money and goods; they ask (through UNRRA) for New Zealand relief workers and organisers, and these two are available; but there is no authority to bridge the gulf that separates the relief party from the people they have volunteered to help. Through nobody’s fault-or rather through everybody’s, since we have all failed to see far enough and plan for remote: enough emergencies — there is no fund available to: pay and main- tain the relief force that is enrolled and ready to go to meet that emergency. We shall have to put our hands in our pockets again, and although most people will do this very readily they will do it more cheerfully if they understand what the situation is. We shall not here repeat what we print in another column, but if our readers will spend a little time over the interview with Mr. C, G. White on page 16 they will understand how it has happened that New Zealand, which has given so generously already to relief funds of all kinds, is still unable to give most effectively to the country it most wants to help. The purpose of CORSO in this matter is to help us to help the Greeks in a human and brotherly way-to take relief to them, and not merely send it, and thus repay as far as we can the incredible and dangerous kindness shown to our own men as soldiers and prisoners through all the long struggle of the war. "T trouble with most dis-
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 337, 7 December 1945, Page 5
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377Help for Greece New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 337, 7 December 1945, Page 5
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