Widespread starvation might or might not come in 1947; if it did, neither UNRRA nor any international agency would be on hand to cope with it. That became virtually certain last week when the U.S. State Department turned down a proposal by UNRRA's Fiorello LaGuardia for a $400 million international relief fund to tide the world over the months between UNRRA's end, next Dec. 31, and the resumption of normal trade.
The State Department's decision was based in part on the belief that a number of Congressmen and plain Americans had become incensed by the "ingratitude" of some of the recipient...
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