RELATIONS BETWEEN UNRRA AND THE SOVIET GOVERNMENT
 
     The most important problem to work out in connection
with the relations between UNRRA and the Soviet Union is
to obtain necessary permission and cooperation from the
Soviet Government so that relief in Eastern Europe can
go forward. This will require a decision bythe Soviet
Union (a) to admit UNRRA personnel to Poland and 
Czechoslovakia; (b) to permit transit of supplies
through Soviet territory and the use of Soviet port and
convoy facilities in connection therewith; (c) to receive
an UNRRA mission in Moscow to work out the necessary
arrangements. The Soviet Government has held up all of
these matters since last June. UNRRA has recently applied
for permission (from the respective Control Commissions)
to send personnel to Rumania and Bulgaria to help relieve
Jews and other victims of war, but to date it has not
been able to make progress on this matter. All of this
is due in part to faulty handling of relations on the
part of UNRRA but primarily it is due to the inability
of the U.S.S.R. to make up its mind as to whether it 
desires to be a recipient of relief from UNRRA or to
continue to receive supplies through the Protocol.
Decisions permitting the beginning of UNRRA operations
in Eastern Europe are urgently required. If they are 
not obtained soon, the public repercussions may be so
great in this country as to terminate any hope whatever
of UNRRA's success.