Sir Herbert Emerson, League High Commissioner for Refugees, has been asked to convene the Liaison Committee to consider the deteriorated position of refugees since the outbreak of the war. The request was made by H.A. Goodman, political secretary of the Jewish religious organization Agudath Israel. Sir Herbert, declaring the request would be given sympathetic consideration pointed out that the war had raised issues not envisaged when the Liaison Committee was formed.
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