British General Frederick Morgan, former UNRRA chief in Germany, who last year was charged with having made anti-Semitic statements concerning Jewish refugees from Eastern Europe, today appealed to the British Government to admit 250,000 displaced persons, particularly Jews, to Britain.
Referring to the displaced Jews, he said: “It is inconceivable that they should stay on the scene of their decimation among people who butchered their nearest and dearest.” He advised that they be admitted “not as expatriated minorities, but as the families of our, friends.” He also charged that UNRRA had failed “notoriously” in its DP operations.
It is not likely that large numbers of displaced Jews in the British zone in Germany would want to come to England as domesties or agricultural laborers, even if the government should be willing to admit them, it was reported here yesterday.
Mrs. Rose Henriques, who has just returned from a two-week tour of the DP camps in the British zone on behalf of the Jewish Committee for Relief Abroad, said that she had instructed the Committee’s field workers to inform the DP’s of the possibility that they might be admitted to fill those job categories, but the responss is not expected to be great. Her inquiries were motivated by a recent report that the government would admit 80,000 displaced Jews to fill certain assential positions.
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