U.N. Secretary-General Trygve Lie today cabled to Henri Ponsot, chairman of the IRO Preparatory Commission, agreeing to make available to the commission advances from the U.N.working capital fund. M. Ponsot had waned that refugee work might have to be abandoned if such funds were not forthcoming.
Arthur J. Altmeyer, Commissioner of the Social Security Administration in the U.S. Federal Security Agency, was tonight named executive secretary of the Praparatory Commission. Altmeyer was proposed by U.S. delegate Alvin Roseman and his nomination was seconded by Sir George Rendel, the British delegate.
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