The Preparatory Commission for the International Refugee Organization, which is meeting here, today adopted a resolution instructing Executive Secretary William H. Tuck to remove restrictions on care and maintenance of refugees which were imposed recently owing to a shortage of funds available to the I.R.O.
Observers here point out that today’s resolution will have little practical effect since the “freeze order” will remain in force until the I.R.O.’s financial difficulties are dissolved. It is expected, however, that the secretariat will make every effort to extend aid to as many “new DP’s” as possible. Jewish circles consider the resolution weak, but a start in the right direction.
(The I.R.O. in the American zone of Germany has agreed to increase the ration of students in CRT training schools and to pay the salaries of instructors in ?chsmarks from the German economy, according to a cable from Dr. S. Steinberg, ?ting director of the ORT in Germany, received at the New York headquarters of the organization. The student ration will be the equivalent of that given a worker.)
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