ON THE SPOT WITH UNRRA
NEWS FROM REPORTING from Albania’s capital city, Tirana, UNRRA ALB ANI A representatives describe unexpected abundance coupled with extreme need, Walking along the streets of Tirana they find that the shops are well supplied with luxury items, left there by the retreating enemy. There are cameras, watches, vacuum flasks, aluminium pans, cosmetics, and a great many "really horrible china ornaments." Unlike the people in the destroyed or inaccessible villages, Albanians in Tirana do not look exceedingly undernourished but-and this is particularly noticeable as soon as you get to the outskirts of the city-they are dressed in clothes which are masterpieces of engineering rather than garments in the ordinary sense of the word, and it is painfully evident that one more washing might result in these garments quietly disintegrating. "Albanians never beg, but they do stare at us and show a friendly and welcoming interest as soon as they recognise our UNRRA flashes when we walk down the street. In a shop the other day one of the customers summoned his entire stock of English to say, ‘UNRRA? Good.’ For those who have no command of English whatsoever, the usual greeting given us, in the tones of a hearty salute, is ‘Profte UNRRA!’ This means ‘Long Live UNRRA,’"
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 343, 18 January 1946, Page 8
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212ON THE SPOT WITH UNRRA New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 343, 18 January 1946, Page 8
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