?scop Unit to Check Anglo-american Inquiry Committee’s Findings Among Dp’s

John D. L. Hood of Australia, chairman of the tenman subcommittee of the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine, which is scheduled to leave Tuesday for an eight-day tour of the displaced persons camps, said today that he saw two important tasks before the subcommittee.

The first, he said, is to check on the findings of last year’s Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry on Palestine and determine whether the vast majority of displaced Jews still wished to go to Palestine. Mr. Hood interposed that he thought it likely that this was still the case, although, of course, he added, the situation night have changed in the last 17 months. The second task will be to learn whether there is still a movement of Jews from the East into the United States zone of Germany, and, if so, what causes this movement and whether it is likely to continue in the future.

The UN group has not asked any authorities beforehand to attempt a census of the emigration wishes of the DP’s. Last year, the Anglo-American committee cabled UNRRA beforehand to have figures and estimates ready. Mr. Hood said his subcommittee would attempt no definite census but would try to do spot checking and to take estimates from the officials in the camps.

Vladimir Simic, the Yugoslav delegate, explained today his motives in voting against visiting the DP camps. He said he had been a prisoner of war and a political suspect for two-and-a-half years. He added that he knew that the Jews in the camps want to go to Palestine. He said that he assumed the subcommittee must recegnize this fact. He also doubted whether UNSCOP had very much time now and that he did not feel that he was bound to complete the work of UNSCOP by Sept. 1. He said that the Anglo-American committee had four months and UNSCOP less than three months. The problem is an enormous one, he emphasized, and he refused to be bound by the Sept. 1 ##