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UNRRA

American  
[uhn-ruh] / ˈʌn rə /
Or U.N.R.R.A.
  1. United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration.


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But Buenos Aires promptly reported that Argentina's exportable surpluses of wheat were already committed by sale or donation; that was the reason Argentina had declined to join UNRRA.

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Until The Hat plunked into their ring, most Democrats had assumed that quiet, ailing former Governor Herbert H. Lehman, who was LaGuardia's predecessor as head of UNRRA, would be their Senate candidate.

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Wai. lace, it developed, had based his criticism largely on the advice of a friend of his in UNRRA, who was now abroad.

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He predicted that UNRRA, whose task it was to abate Europe's hunger, would face disaster within a few weeks unless the U.S. speeded up its support of UNRRA.

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He insisted successfully that he and some of his committeemen have a share in the planning of UNRRA, which was an executive agreement on a tentative first step into the postwar.

From Time Magazine Archive

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