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OCR Page 1 of 20FOOD FOR LIBERATED AREAS
Assistance towards the feeding of civilians in liberated
countries of Europe is provided for in Foreign Economic Admini-
stration supply programs for UNRRA, lend-lease and sales to pay-
ing governments. These programs supplement and extend those of
the military which is primarily responsible for civilian feeding
in the initial period of liberation. The supplies furnished
include foods for direct consumption and various supplies and
equipment needed by liberated countries in order to re-establish
their own food production. In addition, through its foreign
production and procurement activities and its participation in
the Combined Food Board, the FEA is assisting UNRRA and the gov-
ernments of liberated countiries in obtaining needed food supplies
from other parts of the world. The following paragraphs summar-
ize very briefly the programs for furnishing supplies from the
United States.
FOODS
The United States is making foods available to UNRRA for
distribution in Poland, Czechoslavakia, Yugoslavia, Albania and
Greece for which countries UNRRA is presently responsible, and
in Italy where UNRRA is providing a small supplement to military
civilian feeding activities.
Food is being lend-leased to our Western European Allies,
France, Belgium and Luxemburg, and the Netherlands. For France
this includes all of the aid now being furnished by the United
States. In the other countries lend-lease aid supplements the
food supplies furnished by the military so long as the army re-
tains primary responsibility for civilian feeding. When this
responsibility is transferred to civilian agencies it is under-
stood that supplies allocated to the army for such civilian feed-
ing during the balance of 1945 will be re-allocated to FEA so
that they can be made available to these governments in addition
to the supplies presently scheduled as supplemental aid.
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Potsdam Conference, 1945
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