ABSTRACT
The United Nations continued to send instructions through the U.S. Government to a committee made up of representatives of the Defense Department, the State Department, and the Economic Cooperation Agency, which passed these direc tives through the Joint Chiefs of Staff to the commander-in-chief, United Nations Command. One of the directives required that we should make the United Na tions Civil Assistance Command into a real United Nations unit. The member nations by agreement began recruiting health and welfare personnel through national organizations from various countries. The United Nations was also re ceiving token supplies from various countries. By agreement within the United Nations, these supplies, whether they came from governments or from voluntary organizations within the respective nations, were to be pooled; they were to lose their identity as separate donations. Personnel and supplies were to be moved to Japan, where they came under control of the United Nations Command; they were to become, in effect, personnel of the United Nations and supplies of the United Nations for relief of Korea.1
