The urgent necessity of avoiding a break in the continuity of relief work for displaced persons between the time when UNRRA and the Intergovernmental Committee for Refugees go out of existence and the International Refugee Organization begins to function was stressed here today by Sir Herbert Emerson, director of the ICCR, addressing the Preparatory Commission of the I.R.O.
Emerson outlined the work his committee has done in cooperation with the Jewish Agency and the Joint Distribution Committee, and revealed that at a meeting with JDC officials a few days ago, they asked the IGCR to provide $800,000 to finance joint migration plans. He pointed out, however, that his committee is still waiting for the funds for Jewish relief and rehabilitation which are to be made available to it in accordance with a decision by the Allied Reparations Conference, which met in Paris last year.
Sir Herbert disclosed that IGCR experts are now in Frankfurt and Vienna sorting non-monetary gold, which so far provides the only funds available to aid Jewish refugees.
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