January 4, 1945
 
          UNRRA: ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND PROBLEMS
 
       I. Accomplishments. - Some 1200 persons have been recruited, 
including an excellent Bureau of Supply and Health Division.
As to finance, contributions of nearly $1,800,000 have been
provided for operating expenses and most of the members have 
paid their administrative quotas. As to operations, while UNRRA
has not yet taken over direction of relief in any liberated area,
the following facts may be noted: (1) it is running refugee
camps. In the Middle East for some 50,000 Greek, Yugoslav, 
Albanian and Italian refugees; (2) it has arranged with the 
military to care for displaced persons in Italy and to send
supplies to Italy early this year to supplement the military 
relief program; (3) it has sent personnel into Greece to act for 
the military and is prepared to do the same in Albania and Yugo-
slavia; (4) it has arranged with SHAEF to attach UNRRA health and 
displaced persons personnel to the SHAEF G-5 missions; (5) it 
has arranged with the U.S. Typhus Commission for interchange of 
personnel on typhus teams; (6) it has concluded agreements with 
Norway, Belgium, the Netherlands, France and Luxembourg to send 
UNRRA missions to those countries for health, welfare and dis-
placed persons activities; (7) it is prepared, as soon as they
have the consent of the Soviets, to send supplies to Poland and 
Czechoslovakia, and WSA has promised a small amount of shipping 
for this purpose commencing this month; (8) UNRRA has made sub-
stantial progress with respect to the acquisition of supplies
in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and the 
American republics; (9) an UNRRA mission is in Ethiopia; and
(10) regional offices for the Far East have been opened at
Sydney and Chungking.
 
   II. Problems. - 1. UNRRA urgently needs a vigorous and
competent Senior Deputy Director General to counteract the 
Governor's over-cautiousness. The British have not offered a
capable substitute for Sir Arthur Salter who previously had this
job. The Governor has asked for Commander Jackson of MESC and
Richard Law has promised to do what he can to release him. If
he cannot get Jackson, the place might then be filled by a 
strong European such as P. A. Kerstens of the Netherlands or a 
first-class American like Charlie Poletti or Ferdie Eberstadt.
 
     2. It needs a strong American Deputy in London in charge
of field operations. This position has been vacant since
Lithgow Osborne resigned. The Governor tried to get Charlie Taft 
and President Hopkins of Dartmouth. Bill Batt has been
mentioned as a possibility.
 
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