The number of Jewish displaced persons receiving assistance from the International Refugee Organization in Europe declined during the month of March, statistics released by the I.R.O. revealed today.
Jewish DP’s accounted for only nine percent of the total on I.R.O. rolls. Their number was 24,916 during March of a total of 281,938. An indication that the Jewish DP problem in Europe is almost solved–except for "hard core cases"–was seen in the fact that only 256 DP’s left for Israel during that month.
(The New York Times reports from Geneva that in recent weeks it has "become almost impossible" to get Jews in Austrian camps to go to Israel. The dispatch states that refugee officials attribute this development to the fact that a "few dozen" persons returned to the camps from Israel and spread reports of bad conditions in the Jewish state.)
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