U.N.R.R.A. Council.

1. Your 471 [1] received. We have been able to do as you wish and
expect to continue to do so on the Central Committee. There is
general agreement that political issues should be avoided as much
as possible but they frequently come up.

2. The session adjourned harmoniously on 29th March, to be resumed
in the near future in Washington to discuss a report by the
Administration on new food plans and the responses of Governments
and International bodies on procedures. You should receive all
relevant information in time for consideration. The adjourned
meeting is meant to dramatize the situation further and to provoke
more action in the United States of America and elsewhere where
more could be done.

3. I shall be sending you by airmail, in the next day or two, a
full report covering the principal issues, together with the main
documents. Three copies of all documents will follow in due
course. The resolutions on food are lengthy and include no new
principles except publicity of reasons as stated in our last
telegram, 360. [2] They are the result of exhausting and detailed
argument and compromise but are satisfactory.

4. The same is true generally of other contentious issues, except
only the question of the conduct of Soviet occupying forces in
Austria. This was, in our opinion, pressed excessively by the
U.S.A. [3] The Russian group refused to discuss or vote on it but
made no demonstration and the resolutions as passed are
reasonable.