Hias Concludes European Parley; Plan to Facilitate Dp Emigration Submitted to U.N.

A three-day conference of 40 representatives of HIAS offices in 16 countries throughout Europe concluded here today.

At the last session, Major Maurice Geens, American commander of the Funk Kaserne assembly center for DP’s, near Munich, outlined a five-year program for the education and indoctrination of prospective immigrants, particularly those bound for the United States. Mr. Martin Burstein, public relations officer of the organization, pledged that HIAS would cooperate with such a program by supplying educational material such as books, films and maps.

Lewis Neikrug, overseas activities director of HIAS, revealed yesterday that the Australian Government has asked Jewish organizations assisting immigrants not to send Jews to Australia on British, American or Panamanian vessels. In addition, he said, Australia had previously limited Jewish immigrants on British ships to 25 per cent of the passenger capacity of the vessels. As a result, Neikrug declared, many Jews who have obtained the necessary papers and are prepared to leave for that country have been stranded for months.

He also told the delegates that the organization has proposed to the United Nations that it supervise labor recruiting in DP camps, establish a distinction between normal and DP immigration, eliminate red tape holding back refugee immigration and make loans for housing development to nations which would be willing to accept the DP’s if they had sufficient housing facilities.