01/25/1937
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"In U.N.R.R.A. we have devised a mechanism, based on the processes of true democracy, a mechanism that can go far toward accomplishment of such an objective in the days and months of desperate emergenc..."
"The work confronting U.N.R.R.A. is immediate and urgent."
"It is not only humane and charitable for the United Nations to supply medicine and food and other necessities to the peoples freed from Axis control; it is a clear matter of enlightened self-interest."
"Such is the spirit and such is the positive action of the United Nations and their associates at the time when our military power is becoming predominant."