The current census of foreigners being conducted by the Italian Government is not aimed at the 45,000 displaced Jews in Italy, but is a prelude to measures which will stop future infiltration of refugees, Lewis Neikrug, European director of HIAS, reported here today.
Neikrug, who has just arrived from Italy where he conferred with the chief of the Displaced Persons Division in the Ministry of the Interior, said that he had been assured that no action was contemplated against the Jewish DP’s. He was told, however, that Jewish organizations should make every effort to resettle the DP’s elsewhere as the economic situation of Italy made their rehabilitation there impossible.
(The Preparatory Commission of the International Refugee Organization, meeting in Geneva, today instructed U.N. Secretary-General Trygve Lie to bring to the attention of all the United Nations the grave situation of the displaced persons in Italy. It urged that the Allied nations, together with UNRRA and the Intergovernmental Refugee Committee, aid the DP’s when Allied troops leave Italy within a short time.)
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