Excerpt from Survey Midmonthly, Vol. 80: January 1944 December 1944 The decision to help civilians in the Axis countries was not based entirely on altruistic motives. The unrra delegates were almost curiously free from hate, but they do not feel neighborly toward their ravisher. They might be willing to forego revenge, but they have no intention of turning the other cheek. It was generally agreed, however, that a favorable decision on helping Axis civilians would have considerable propaganda value in the psychological warfare being waged to wean the Axis satel lites away from Hitler. The governments of Rumania and Hungary, for example, might find it more difficult to force their people, their hope of an Axis victory gone, to stand firm if food and other help are assured once they abandon their master. Another practical reason for this part of the program is to ease the burden on the military authorities, leaving them more time and energy to devote to purely military matters. Unrra, of course, would move in only when requested to do so by the army. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.