The government has chose Sen. Pat McCarran and Rep. Francis E. Walter, co-authors of the McCarran-Walter omnibus immigration bill, as two members of a three-man delegation to represent the United States at a 19-nations meeting here today to name a director for the Provisional Intergovernmental Committee for the Movement of Migrants from Europe.
The other member of the U.S. delegation is George Warren, the State Department’s expert on refugee affairs. Israel is represented by Jacob Robinson, a member of the Israel delegation to the United Nations.
The organization was created at Brussels last December, on the initiative of the United States, to ease Western Europe’s surplus population problem by stimulating migration to the under-populated areas of the Western hemisphere, Australia, and New Zealand. The U.S. has announced that its candidate for the post of director will be Hugh Gibson, former American Ambassador to Belgium and Brazil.
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