The board of directors of the National Council of Catholic Women, meeting here this week, adopted statements urging the United States “to set an example to the rest of the world by accepting a sizeable proportion of the displaced persons” and endorsed Congressional action to make that possible.
The group also adopted statements urging the United Nations to set up “as soon as possible” machinery to enforce human rights everywhere and also urged Congress to give financial support to the IRO. They also urged that the IRO “be liberal in its interpretation” of refugees, “so that undue hardships will not be wreaked on innocent and defenseless people possessing neither homes nor homelands.”
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