Twelve hundred chalutzim have arrived in Italy from Germany and Austria within the past three days, it was learned here today.
Serious dissatisfaction exists among some 7,000 chalutzim, living and working in 50 training farms throughout Italy, as a result of UNRRA’s decision to close up the settlements. The chalutzim are expected to object most strenuously to moving from their centers into crowded camps where conditions are known to be primitive.
Sir George Rendel, British representative on the Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees, has arrived in Italy to study displaced persons problems. Rendel is expected to make recommendations to the British Government as to whether or not the DP population should be transferred out of Italy when British troops withdraw in about four months.
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