The British Government is planning to end the category of displaced persons in the British zone of Germany in a move to cut down occupation costs, John Hynd, Minister for Occupied Territory, announced in Commons. Jewish DP’s will be exempted from the plan, according to sources here.
The DP’s will be given an opportunity to leave the zone, Hynd said, and those who remained would be placed on the same rations as the Germans and would fall under German supervision. For the 11,000 Jews in the zone, the government is understood to be providing a different plan, including the development of small seals homework industry within the camps.
A Norwegian delegation is due in the British zone tomorrow to select 600 displaced Jews for settlement in Norway.
(An Associated Press dispatch from Berlin today quoted Brigadier A.G. Kenchington, British military government expert for displaced persons, as stating that 5,000 Jews now living in Palestine have applied for permission to return to Germany.)
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