Emergency Economic Committee for Europe, EECE UNRA Standing Committee on Starvation Conditions SC(46)19 12.5x8.5", 5pp, 3 sheets, including a truncated cover sheet. Provenance: Library of Congress, with their surplus/duplicate stamp on the rear of the last sheet. Very Good condition. $150
I reproduce the entire document, below. It is interesting to note that this deals just with Europe, with no mention of, say, the Ukraine (which was suffering from famine already by 1945), or of the artificially-famine-induced Soviet Union.
The United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA, 1943-1947) was established to "plan, co-ordinate, administer or arrange for the administration of measures for the relief of victims of war in any area under the control of any of the United Nations through the provision of food, fuel, clothing, shelter and other basic necessities, medical and other essential services...By 1947, UNRRA was running nearly 800 resettlement camps, housing seven million people. Forty-four nations contributed to funding, supplying, and staffing the agency, of which the United States was the leading donor. The largest recipients of UNRRA commodity aid, in millions of US dollars were China, $518; Poland – $478; Italy – $418; Yugoslavia – $416; Greece – $347; Czechoslovakia – $261; Ukraine (USSR) – $188; and Austria – $136."--wikipedia
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