UNRRA
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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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This was a life-saving fund, and Under Secretary of State William Clayton pledged that it would only be used to fill the gap left by an expiring UNRRA.
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Said Lehman: "UNRRA . . . will be unable to provide all the assistance which is so clearly needed in the world today."
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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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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.
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