Asked today whether the Intergovernmental Refugee Committee would undertake to help refugees from the ceded Sudeten areas of Czechoslovakia, Secretary of State Cordell Hull replied that the settlement of refugee problems was entirely up to the committee itself. the committee, he said, will pass on new conditions as they arise.
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