Milton Winn, a New York attorney and a leader of the American Jewish Committee, who served the United States and the United Nations in a variety of posts, died here yesterday at his home at the age of 70.
He was a general counsel in 1942 for the U.S. Office of Civilian Defense, and during World War II a regional attorney for the Office of Price Administration. He was a special representative of the Foreign Economic Administration in 1955 and in 1945 was named senior deputy chief of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration in Czechoslovakia, where he served several years.
As a special representative of the UN Technical Administration assigned to work with the Turkish Government, starting in 1951, he had a distinguished record of helping to improve United States-Turkish relations. At his death he was co-president of the American Turkish-Society.
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