Within 3 weeks the UNRRA organization was set up. with Herbert H. Lehman. exGovernor of New York. as Director General. In 6 months UNRRA had built up an administrative staff and a field staff. had decided on procedural methods. had surveyed present and potential relief needs. and had begun the stock piling of supplies. On May 19. 1944. it tackled its firstjob in the fieldthe assumption of financial and administrative controls of north African war refugee camps. taken over from a British relief organization. Then in September 1944 UNRRA held its second council session at Montreal. Canada. to check the results of almost a year of experience.