Great Relief Scheme Started

Series

Series Name

Pathe Gazette

Issue

Issue No.

43/97

Date Released

6 Dec 1943

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Great Relief Scheme Started
2. 2Pilgrimage to Alamein
3. 3The Cairo Conference

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 3

Summary

The birth of UNRRA (the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration). In the White House, Mr Roosevelt, Mr Gromyko and Lord Halifax are among the delegates of forty nations who sign the document which will help to relieve suffering among the millions of homeless and hungry all over the world. Almost immediately the Allied Relief organisation goes into action. In Naples flour is unloaded, Italian labour is set to work repairing bridges and restoring communications. From Egypt comes harvesting scenes, the crop being a variety of millet. This is threshed and then sacked, no part of the plant is wasted. The millet seeds later will be mixed with wheat to produce a war time bread.

Keywords

Politics and government; Agriculture; Foreign aid

Locations

Washington; Italy; Egypt; District of Columbia

Length of story (in feet)

196

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