Forty-nine displaced Jews who left here last Wednesday bound for Paris en route to South America returned here today. They were turned back by French border guards at Strasbourg last night on the excuse that they did not have all the necessary documents for entering France.
The French consul here and at Frankfurt had checked and double checked the documents of the group before they left Munich. Representatives of UNRRA and voluntary agencies and the French consuls have communicated with Paris officials in an attempt to clear up the difficulty.
Rabbi Philip S. Bernstein, advisor on Jewish affairs to U.S. forces in Europe, today told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that American military authorities in Austria are carrying out a number of recommendations for DP welfare which he made during a tour of the American zone of Austria last month. He reported that food allowances had been increased, that a number of bottlenecks in the distribution of supplies had been eliminated and that an election for members of a central Jewish committee for Austria was scheduled to take place in all Jewish DP camps later this month.
Among the recommendations he made were: that increases in food rations be made to bring the total of calories daily to the same level as those for Jews in the American zone of Germany; the recognition of a central Jewish committee for Austria, the establishment of a Jewish coordinating council including representatives of voluntary relief agencies and the DP’s; and the elimination of bottlenecks in the distribution of fuel and clothing.
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