Negotiations are under way with the Italian Government concerning aid for refugees in Italy after both UNRRA and Allied occupation troops leave, and before the projected International Refugee Organization begins operations, Sir George Rendel, British delegate, told the preparatory commission of the IRO, meeting here.
Humphrey Gale, who is representing UNRRA at the conference, reported that within the last four months UNRRA had established transit camps for 10,000 new infiltrees at Bari, Milan and Rome. He pointed out that uncontrolled infiltration will be a grave problem facing the Italian Government following the withdrawal of Allied occupation troops. Gale said that 7,000 Jews have been retrained in UNRRA centers in Italy under the direction of the Joint Distribution Committee.
The British delegate drew a laugh from the members of the commission when he expressed wonderment as to where the DP’s who disappear from the camps would go after leaving Italy. French delegate M. do Rosen pleaded with the commission to continue UNRRA’s tracing bureau after the closing of UNRRA activities this June. He said that “many tens of thousands of Jewish children are still to be traced, identified and restored to their anxious parents.”
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