The agricultural rehabilitation planning work started under OFRRO, and the Division was established as a part of the UNRRA Bureau of Supply early in 1944.
The functions of the Division, outlined in A.O. No. 8, 15 April 1944, were to prepare requirements estimates; negotiate allocations of supplies; develop specifications and standards for supplies to be purchased; cooperate with other UNRRA divisions in achieving orderly, balanced programs, analyzing relevant reports and data, providing advice and information on agricultural commodities, and developing time schedules; and negotiate with national procurement agencies in arranging for purchase and deliveries.
At the peak of operations (about July 1946), the Division consisted of the Office of the Director and five major Branches: Field Services, Agriculture (and Fisheries) Equipment, livestock, General Farm Supplies, and Program Analysis and Control, each broken into a number of sections and units. A Records and Shipping Section, at that time a part of the Office of the Director, seems later to have been incorporated with the Progress Control Section of the Program Analysis and Control Branch.
Series contains PAG-4/3.0 (UNRRA Europe, Middle East and Africa), subseries ( 3.0.0) Albania Mission; (3.0.1) Austria Mission; (3.0.2) Balkan Mission and Middle East; (3.0.3) Belgium Mission; (3.0.4) Byelorussia Mission; (3.0.5) Czechoslovakia Mission; (3.0.6) Denmark Mission; (3.0.7) Dodecanese Islands Mission; (3.0.8) Ethiopia Mission; (3.0.9) Finland Mission; (3.0.10) France Mission; (3.0.12) Greece Mission; (3.0.13) Hungary Mission; (3.0.14) Italy Mission; (3.0.15) Luxembourg Mission; (3.0.16) Norway Mission; (3.0.17) Poland Mission; (3.0.18) Sweden Mission; (3.0.19) Switzerland Mission; (3.0.20) Trieste Port Office; (3.0.21) Turkey Mission; (3.0.22) Ukraine Mission; (3.0.23) Yugoslavia Mission.
Boxes 1 to 71 do not exist anymore (RD 18/08/09). See series S-1009, S-1010, S-1011, S-1012 and S-1013.
In accordance with a resolution adopted by the Central Committee on 8 April 1948, the office of Director-General of UNRRA was abolished effective 30 September 1948 and was replaced by the new office of the Administrator for Liquidation. The Controller of UNRRA was appointed to the post and assumed responsibility for administering the remaining organization and for closing its accounts and liquidating its affairs. He served until 31 March 1949, at which time all remaining functions were turned over to the United Nations as provided in an agreement between the two organizations approved by the General Assembly in October 1948 (Doc. A/665, 6 October 1948).
Series consists of reports, documents and reference papers relating to studies on the organization and functions of UNRRA. Arranged alphabetically .
The agricultural rehabilitation planning work started under OFRRO, and the Division was established as a part of the UNRRA Bureau of Supply early in 1944.
The functions of the Division, outlined in A.O. No. 8, 15 April 1944, were to prepare requirements estimates; negotiate allocations of supplies; develop specifications and standards for supplies to be purchased; cooperate with other UNRRA divisions in achieving orderly, balanced programs, analyzing relevant reports and data, providing advice and information on agricultural commodities, and developing time schedules; and negotiate with national procurement agencies in arranging for purchase and deliveries.
At the peak of operations (about July 1946), the Division consisted of the Office of the Director and five major Branches: Field Services, Agriculture (and Fisheries) Equipment, livestock, General Farm Supplies, and Program Analysis and Control, each broken into a number of sections and units. A Records and Shipping Section, at that time a part of the Office of the Director, seems later to have been incorporated with the Progress Control Section of the Program Analysis and Control Branch.
This series consists of mixed record types (documents, maps, brochures, photographs and posters) of the Interim Committee on Headquarters, which together describe the process leading to the selection of a permanent headquarters for the United Nations. Records of predecessor entities, including the Preparatory Commission, Executive Committee, Sub-Committee, Committee Eight (on General Questions) and Committee Ten (on General Questions) are also included. The Preparatory Commission was empowered to select a site for the permanent headquarters of the United Nations by the Interim Arrangements, signed 26 June 1945 in San Francisco, California, on the same occasion as the signing of the United Nations Charter. The Prepatory Commisssion established the Executive Committee, which formed ten committees, including Committee Eight and Committee Ten. A Sub-Committee appointed by Committee Eight created the Interim Committee on Headquarters in December 1945. An Inspection Group was subsequently tasked with visiting sites in the eastern United States that were approved by the Interim Committee on 28 December 1945.
Records in this series include summary reports, technical reports, recommendations and requirements, proposals, correspondence with officials and citizens, brochures, maps, photographs, posters and one photographic negative.
Please note the following inconsistencies relating to the dates of records in this series:
- Where earliest and/or latest dates are not supplied by the contents of a folder, the default dates given are 1 January 1945 to 31 December 1946, representing the period of the entire series, including the steps preceding the visit of the Inspection Group to the United States on 5 January 1946. However, in S-0532-0001-0004, the information release dated 4 January 1946 cites the process of selecting a permanent headquarters for the United Nations as tracing back to 26 June 1945, during the signing of the United Nations Charter. Therefore, the default dates of the series should more accurately be represented as 26 June 1945 to 31 December 1946.
- Earliest and latest dates noted in the series do not include the publication dates of maps, brochures and photographs in the series. However, in some cases, they do.
The following contents may be of particular interest for researchers; however, please note that records of note that are not supplied below are found throughout the series:
S-0532-0001-0004 (information release and extracts from reports describing background of project)
S-0532-0006-0001 (photo of meeting, uncaptioned)
S-0532-0010-0020 (working maps)
S-0532-0011-0001 (official vote for Manhattan-East River site)
S-0532-0011-0002 and 0003 (report, letters and drawings by Le Corbusier; some in fragile condition)
S-0532-0014-0004 (map - Districts Visited by the Inspection Group)