The Intergovernmental Refugee Committee, which opens a plenary session in London on Wednesday, has accepted a British proposal to include in its scope refugees now in Poland and has promised to consider Polish citizens expelled from Germany when allotting territories for settlement, it was declared today in an official communique.
The communique said word to that effect had been given representative of Polish Fund Organization Committee in London by “a prominent member” of the committee with whom he had been negotiating on the question of emigration of Polish Jews and German refugees of Polish nationality.
According to the communique, the committee spokesman said that the problem of financing mass colonization and experimental settlement would be discussed at the forthcoming session. Under American Vice-Chairman Myron C. Taylor’s initiative, it was stated, a coordinating foundation committee will be established for the purpose of raising funds and this committee will give the representatives of the Polish Government an opportunity of supporting the claims of Polish Jews wanting to emigrate. The communique said that the committee spokesman promised to continue backing efforts to solve the Polish Jewish emigration problem.
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