There is a possibility that the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry on Palestine will issue an interim report on the situation of the Jews in Poland, when it reassembles in Vienna this Saturday, it was learned here. At the same time, it was said that the Committee’s final report will be issued around May 8.
At a press conference today, it was announced that the sub-committee which visited Poland has returned after a six-day tour of the country during which it interviewed Jewish leaders, government officials, Catholic spokesmen and the “man in the street” in an attempt to determine the economic possibilities in the country and the future of the Jews there.
The committee members who toured the British zone, under the leadership of American co-chairman Judge Joseph Hutcheson, refused to comment on their visit except to say that they toured Hamburg, Hanover and Lubeck. It was announced, however, that the Russian zone of Germany would not be visited, because the committee had been in formed by Soviet authorities that there were no concentration of Jews there.
The sub-committee here wound up its investigations today by conferring with a representative of the Jewish community council, who reported that results of a recent poll among Berlin Jews indicate that most of them wish to emigrate to Palestine. The probers will meet with Lieut. Gen Lucius D. Clay, deputy military governor of the U.S. zone tonight, and will fly to Vienna tomorrow morning.
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