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possibly on Germany. That assistance would, in the
first place, concern our closest neighbors needs no
explanation. On the contrary, it is not equally
evident that Germany should receive Swedish aid.
The terrible sufferings which, for example, Belgium,
France, Austria .and Hungary had undergone made
Swedish assistance there quite logical and natural,
in view of our old cultural and material relations
with these countries. As pointed out, however, one
could suppose that through their connections with
England and the United States, they would get help
from other sources. It seems fairly evident that after
the war, nations other than Sweden would give them
help. To a certain degree, this applied also to Poland.
Because of the events that had occurred there during
the first weeks of the war, the Allies ought to have
been especially anxious to aid the Poles after the
armistice. Poland was a country which had suffered
terribly from the war, and the need there would
certainly be enormous. As regards Germany, the
situation was of course quite different. Help from
a neutral country like Sweden would be of great
significance.
These were my general views on Swedish
postwar aid in the summer of 1943. It may be of interest
in this connection to get a picture of how these
activities were afterwards organized and executed.
In my opinion, the greatest short-coming in the
planning and instituting of international aid at the
end of the war was that no leading organization was
available to coordinate the program for work in the
different countries. It is well known that UNRRA,
formed at an early stage by the Allies, had worked
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