RELIEF: Song & Dance

In Berlin, UNRRA Chief Fiorello H. LaGuardia went into another song & dance. Irked by questions about U.S. contributions to UNRRA, he asked Chicago Tribune Correspondent Hal Foust why he continued to work for a "lousy, stinking, disreputable and untruthful newspaper." He parried queries about his political ambitions by calling himself "just a political displaced person."

But then LaGuardia created a political displaced person by announcing the "release" (as UNRRA director for Germany) of Britain's Lieut. General Sir Frederick Morgan. His reason: reorganization of UNRRA operations. Morgan was suspended from the same post last January for saying that clandestine organizations were...

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