U.N. RELIEF AND REHABILITATION ADMINISTRATION

Washington, D.C. • November 9, 1943 On this date in 1943 in Washington, D.C., U.S. President Frank­lin D. Roose­velt added his sig­na­ture to an agree­ment by repre­sen­ta­tives of 44 nations to estab­lish the United Nations Relief and Reha­bil­i­ta­tion Admin­is­tra­tion. UNRRA (pro­nounced un-ruh) was the first U.N. orga­ni­za­tion to be created, estab­lished 1½ years before the United Nations…