Thirty-five of the thirty-nine governments affiliated with the Intergovernmental Committee for Refugees will be represented by the ambassadors, ministers and other diplomatic representatives at the plenary session of the Intergovernmental Committee which opens in London on August 15, to discuss ways and means of saving Jews of Hungary and other countries in Nazi Europe, it was announced here today.
A report will be presented to the session on the activities of the Intergovernmental committee since its reorganization in August 1943. The session will also discuss questions concerning the cooperation of the Intergovernmental Committee with other governmental organs interested in refugee problems, particularly the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, the War Refugee Board, the League of Nations’ commission for refugees and the International Labor Office.
Considerable doubt as to whether the British and American governments are exerting their full energies in furthering the effort of rescuing Jews from Hungary is expressed today in the Manchester Guardian, one of Britain’s leading daily papers.
“It would be criminal if lack of money, or even lack of ships, would be permitted to handicap the scheme offered by Admiral Horthy for the evacuation of Jews from Hungary,” the paper writes. “If military or economic conditions prevent the issue of more permits for Jews from Hungary to enter Palestine – and this is highly questionable – then the Allies must make alternative arrangements now.”
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