Australia will shortly ratify the international Convention on the Status of Refugees, with certain reservations designed to prevent discrimination between refugees and other immigrants entering the country, R.G. Casey, Minister for External Affairs, has informed the Executive Council of Australian Jewry. Mr. Casey’s statement was contained in a reply to several resolutions adopted at the recent annual conference of the Executive Council and forwarded to him.
Commenting on a resolution protesting the release of Nazi war criminals from Allied prisons and the growing infiltration of former Nazis into key positions in the German Government, the Minister said that the Allied Powers had reviewed the cases of war criminals and had reduced sentences or released prisoners where clemency appeared justified – perhaps because the prisoners had occupied relatively subordinate positions or because the courts had received new evidence.
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