THE B.A.O.R'S VIEWS
Sut,—I should like to make one comment on Mr. W. G. Moore's interest- ing article, " The B.A.O.R.'s Views," in your issue of October 12th, which arrived recently. Mr. Moore quite rightly puts the Displaced Persons Problem in proper perspective by giving the Army credit which has been too frequently allotted exclusively to U.N.R.R.A. As a D.P. officer with both the American and the British Army, first in the Rhine Province, then in Hanover, I know what a fine job of work was done by American and British officers, frequently fresh from combat, long before U.N.R.R.A. was in the field. I am proud to pay tribute to many young subalterns and N.C.O.s whose work I inspected in scores of D.P. camps. They were, with very rate exceptions, self-reliant, keen, dependable and hard-working. Without them we D.P. officers of Military Government could not have coped with the problem. I should not like to see them go without their due credit and I am grateful to Mr. Moore and to The Spectator for draw- ing attention to the Army's part in a very arduous task.—Yours sincerely,
B.A.O.R. MAJOR.
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