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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

 
NUMBER: 449
AUTHOR: Elfan B. Rees (1906–78)
QUOTATION: It is some time since so few have been asked to do so much for so many on so little.
ATTRIBUTION: ELFAN B. REES, “The Refugee and the United Nations,” International Conciliation, June 1953, p. 281.

Dr. Rees, secretary of the United Nations Commission of the Churches on International Affairs, was speaking of the U. N. budget designated to assist World War II refugees.
SUBJECTS: Doing