The United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration will be permitted, where it deems it advisable, to finance religious and educational programs in countries where it will operate, as a result of a compromise between Senate and House conferees reached yesterday.
Senator Tom Connally, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, announced that the conference had decided to delete an amendment from the resolution authorizing U.S. participation in UNRRA which would have barred appropriation of its founds for any religious or educational programs.
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