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Relief and Rehabilitation Organization

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2009

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The first formal action by the Allied Governments in considering the problem of reconstruction of the disrupted transport system of Europe's devastated areas was taken in October, 1942, when the Inter-Allied Committee on Post-war Requirements set up a Technical Advisory Committee on Inland Transport, with Professor E. R. Hondelink of the Netherlands as chairman. On November 18, 1942, the Hondelink Committee held its first meeting in London, with representatives present from Belgium, Czechoslovakia, France, Greece, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, the United Kingdom and the United States. The work of the Committee consisted of 1) the preparation of estimates of requirements of equipment for the rehabilitation of inland waterways, railways, and ports against estimated movements of military and relief materials, and 2) the planning of an organization to expedite the movement of relief and priority traffic in post-war Europe. As a result of this work, the basis was laid for the eventual Agreement establishing the European Central Inland Transport Organization.

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International Organizations: Summary of Activities VI. War and Transitional Organizations
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International Organization , Volume 1 , Issue 1 , February 1947, pp. 178 - 183
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Copyright © The IO Foundation 1947

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References

40 From information furnished by the Department of State.

41 European Inland Transport: Agreement between the United States of America and Other Powers, Signed at London, May 8, 1945. Washington, Government Printing Office, 35 p. Executive Agreement Series 458.

42 ECITO Information Paper, n.d. [Summer 1946].

43 Ibid.

44 Ibid.

45 Draft Agreement Concerning the Establishment of a European Central Inland Trantport Organization, Article 1. Washington, Government Printing Office, 35 p. Executive Agreement Series 458.

46 Report on the Activities of the European Central Inland Transport Organization by Executive Board, Document ECITO/C/121, p. 16.

47 ECITO Information Paper, n.d. [Summer 1946].

48 From information furnished by the State Department.

49 From information furnished by the State Department.

50 Draft Agreement Concerning the Establishment of a European Central Inland Transport Organization, Article IX.

51 Document ECITO/C/121, pp. 40–41.

52 From information furnished by the State Department.

53 Draft Agenda for the Sixth Session of the Council

54 Emergency Economic Committee for Europe, Report by the Secretary-General, London, August 1, 1946, p. 2.

55 Ibid., p. 3.

56 Ibid., pp. 3–7.

57 Emergency Economic Committee for Europe, Report by the Secretary-General, London, August 1, 1946, pp. 7–19.

58 Ibid., pp. 13–16.

59 Ibid., pp. 2–3.

60 Ibid., p. 20.

61 For UNRRA program of shipments through December 31, 1946 see EconomicRecovery in the Countries Assisted by NRRA, Report presented by UNRRA to the United Nations (September 1946), pp. 12–13; also see the President's Seventh and Eighth Reports to Congress on Operations of UNRRA, Department of State Publications Nos. 2549 and 2617.

62 See UNRRA, Displaced Persons Operations, Report of Central Headquarters for Germany, April, 1946.

63 UNRRA, Journal, Vol. IV, Nos. 9–13, March 25–29,1946

64 UNRRA, Journal, Vol. IV, Nos. 8, 9, 13, March 23, 25, 29, 1946.

65 Economic Recovery in the Countries Assisted by UNRRA, pp. 4–5; Statement by F. H. LaGuardia before the Economic and Financial Committee of the United Nations General Assembly. Doci jaent A/C.2/40.

66 UNRRA Journal, Vol. V, No. 10, August 15, 1946.

67 Ibid.

68 Ibid., No. 12, August 17, 1946.

69 Ibid.

70 Ibid.

71 New York Times, December 14, 1946.

72 Ibid.

73 Ibid.