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great popular movements and other powerful groups
have joined as supporting members, has also been
of great importance. The Swedish European relief
has made the collection of clothes and money more
efficient, and has in different ways helped to
coordinate relief activities so that different Swedish
organizations would not be performing the same tasks
in each country. As a matter of fact, the Swedish
European Relief Organization has become the leading
factor in the post-war program which I had originally
envisaged. Undoubtedly, this organization had better
qualifications than the Red Cross alone could have
had to achieve the excellent successes which have
resulted.
In our Red Cross work after the Armistice, we
have always followed the policy that our
Scandinavian sister nations would be the first to receive aid.
In that respect the development differs in no way
from the program I drafted in 1943. Activities in
Germany have had good results, and they have also
been approved by the Allies. In the case of Poland,
our policy was to carry on as much relief work as
possible without reducing any of our aid to
Scandinavian countries. For obvious reasons, the Allies
have not been able to do very much for Poland with
the exception of UNRRA’s large contributions.
England, especially, has had great difficulties to cope
with, not the least of which has been the food
problem. Therefore, she has been unable to aid Poland
to the extent she would have desired.
Conditions in Holland and Belgium have improved
more rapidly than was anticipated, and the
reconstruction work that the Dutch and Belgian people
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