A sub-committee of the Anglo-American inquiry committee on Palestine, consisting of co-chairman Judge Joseph Hutcheson and Sir John Singleton and Lord Morrison, met here today behind tightly shut doors, and heard testimony from representatives of the JDC and the British “Jewish Committee for Relief Abroad.”
It is understood that the problem of the eastern European and German Jews now in Berlin was discussed. This afternoon, the committee members conferred with Brig. Gen. Stanley Mickelson, chief of the Displaced Persons Division of the Office of Military Government of the United States, and representatives of Army intelligence.
Hutcheson and Morrison toured the Dupel Camp here late yesterday, and heard two camp leaders explain that the Dupel inmates, most of whom fled from Poland, feel that Palestine is the only place where they can find security.
The sub-committee was shown the results of a poll taken at the camp, which indicated that an overwhelming number of persons wish to emigrate to Palestine.
The probers expressed puzzlement as to why the Dupel residents are regarded as “infiltrees,” since they had returned to Poland and then fled, rather than as “displaced persons,” who are assured more assistance than the “infiltrees” under present regulations.
The two committeemen refused to discuss their findings in the British zone, where they spent several days.
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