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out extensive plans for aid. It is also known that
this organization, which finished its work in 1947,
suffered from a number of obvious flaws. It made
some significant contributions, but much more could
very likely have been achieved if UNRRA had been
better organized. The leaders did a marvelous job,
but they did not have a sufficient number of
assistants with real experience in humanitarian work
at their disposal to lend stability to the organization.
Because of this, a great deal of money and material
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As is known, Sweden could not become a member
of UNRRA as its statutes stipulated that only Allied
nations could be admitted to membership. Therefore,
we had to organize our own relief program, and in
many ways this was an advantage. The program
was extensive. The Swedish Red Cross was by no
means the only Swedish organization which carried
on relief work after the war. In the beginning of
1944, the Swedish Committee for International Aid,
was organized, partly for the purpose of coordinating
Swedish relief work, and partly for the investigation
of how government funds should be used for these
purposes. Associations such as the Save the Children
Society, Intra-European Mission and others still
continue aid activities in various countries, and last
but not least, one should stress the extraordinary
contribution both during and after the war made
by the AÀid to Norway Society and the various
agencies for Aid to Finland. The forming of the
so-called Swedish European Relief, in which are
representated all the most important organizations
active in the humanitarian field, and which even the
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