A String for UNRRA

Far from satisfied with the job UNRRA was doing already, U.S. Representatives voted to give the huge relief agency still another job. The House approved a $550 million appropriation for UNRRA, but attached a string: the money could be spent only in countries which granted the U.S. press full freedom to report UNRRA doings.

Similar policy matters, soluble only at a high diplomatic level, had greatly retarded UNRRA's performance, and UNRRA was falling far short of expectations. It could give no relief to the hungry countries of northwestern Europe. Short on authority, it could do little in the field of rehabilitation. Whatever UNRRA needed, it was not the job of enforcing press freedom.

UNRRA hoped that the Senate would remember that:

1) UNRRA's policies and functions can be altered only by a majority vote of the 44 member nations; 2) the Potsdam agreement has already opened up the countries of southeastern Europe to U.S. correspondents, who have recently been able to file an astonishing amount of highly critical copy.

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