The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-12-28
SoIon Sees Senote Probe Of UNRRA
 Bridges to Ask
 Direct AmePieeN
 EoPeicn Relief

Concord, N. H. Dec, es .- (Up)-- Direct American relief in the future for world zones where the need stu exists, ard a congressional lnveStl~ gatlon og past U.N.RR.A. activities win be sought by Q. s, Sen. Styles Bridges, R., N.Hl, when he be- comes chairman of the Senate Ape propriatlons Committee In the new Congress, he announced today,
 U.N.RR.A. funds expire Dec. a by law, and Bridges said in Nn the tervlew he was amazed to learn" that It's director, Florello II, LA- 0Uardia, now Is advocating tur- ther appropriations Co continue It's activities in le4I
 Both La0uariia and under-Sec- retary of State william Clayton promised at hearings before the Senate Appropriations Committee c year ago that no further funds would ever be requested of the United States for U.N.R.R.A, Bridges said. "H there Is to be any international form of relief, admin istered by any international organ. iEation, the appropriations commit tee Is going to require c report on how the funds of this nation were handled by the past organization, and how 1t Is proposed to handle our funds In the future"
 Cites Hoover Program
 The only way money can be ob. tained for continuance of U.N.R.R.A., he sald, will be through the Appropriations Committee. And that will take some doing" he asserted.
 Admitting that American food and supplies probably stil are need- ed in some stricken nations, Bridges said such relief in the future should be administered directly by the American government like the Hoover relief after the last war"
 Direct American relief is the simplest and most satisfactory method of handling this world problem" Bridges said. Wherever there is vital nede for relief, we should offer direct aid, administered by an agency of the United States Government and given directly to the people who need 1t, and not handled by some foreign govern ment.
 'Tf certain nations do not want U. s. relief on those conditions, they should be willing to get along without it." he continued. AS to the cost of such program supported by this Government alone, Bridges said that the United States already pays 72 percent of U.N.R.R.A.'s costs but has only . single representative on its executive committee. The world relief organization already has received e2,700, 900 900 in Amer lean funds, he said.
 Hopes for Investigation Bridges outlined "bill of partic- ulars" against U.N.RR-A., which he said he would seek to document through a congressional investiga- ton. He declared there must be some foundation" for reports of U.N.R.R.A. supplies being diverted to unlawful uses, food in Europe's black markets. and grains sent to feed starving people winch have been "siphoned of" to breweries.
 Money and goods vitally needed ct home have been shipped abroad where they have been used by for eign governments to exploit their people and to support totalitarian dictators whose activities run coun- ter to the purposes for which we fought the war;" Senator Bridges contended.
 "All these nations presumably want to get on e self-sustGinine basis as soon as possible" he said yet American food is being used for political purposes by totalitarian dictators who are humping the drums of war and exploiting their peoples through use of UN.RR.A supplies"
 Among the charges which Bridges wants investigated by Congress ii the report that U.N.RR.A.'s tor policy-makers favor Communism