Although the Secretariat of the United Nations has established a relief office along the guidelines I first proposed in 1969. this office is woefully underfunded. Similarly there must be a new mechanism within our own Government to focus U.S. relief programs. A year ago. the Judiciary Subcommittee on Refugees. for which I serve as chairman. recommended the creation of a Bureau of Social and Humantarian Services within the Department of State. In a letter to President Nixon. on September 17. 1970. I reemphasized the inadequate relief apparatus that now exists. saying: There Is no single office to give guidance and impulse. no regularized decision making process. no ready mechanism to quickly evaluate and respond to frequent emergencies. no central office controlling and weighing overall allocations of resources. and little highlevel interest and concern in the effective operation of the various humanitarian programs.
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