The American delegation to the Bermuda Refugee Conference arrived at LaGuardia Field here this afternoon aboard a Pan American Clipper. Herbert H. Lehman, Director of the Office of Foreign Relief and Rehabilition Operations, returning from London, was a passenger. Also aboard the Clipper were George Backer, American Jewish leader, one of the advisers to the U.S. delegation, and Mrs. Ida Landau, who covered the Hamilton meeting for the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
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