840.50 UNRRA/8–1545: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in the United Kingdom (Winant)
6929. Department believes every effort should be made to defer consideration Yugoslav resolution reported in your 8283, August 15 until Council acts on overall resolution on Italy.74 If unable to defer you should vote against it. Italian resolution would incorporate provision for area covered by Yugoslav resolution, which area in our opinion should receive no better and no worse UNRRA treatment than Italy as a whole. Our position is sovereignty of area must not be compromised until decided by peace treaty.
Sent to London as Depts 6929, repeated to Rome as Depts 1366.
[On August 23, 1945, the UNRRA Committee on Policy considered the Yugoslav resolution. “The Committee agreed that it was desirable that the inhabitants of the area in question (territories defined by the agreement between the Yugoslav Government and the Allied Forces Headquarters, Mediterranean Theatre of Operations, of June, 1945) should receive relief and rehabilitation assistance from the Administration; the discussion turned solely on the point whether any further resolution was necessary for this purpose, in view of the adoption of the two previous resolutions relating to Italy and Austria and of the fact that Yugoslavia was already in receipt of relief and rehabilitation assistance from the Administration. The matter was put to a vote, and the Committee decided against the adoption of the proposed Resolution.” (United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, Journal, Third Session of the Council, London, England, August 7–25, 1945, page 119.)]
- Reference here is to Resolution 73; for text, see Woodbridge, UNRRA, vol. iii, p. 143.↩