The United Nations Social Committee last night passed a new U.N. program to aid refugees to replace the I.R.O. which ends in 1951. The vote — 24 to 12, with 10 abstentions — was carried over the objections of the United States and the Soviet Union. The measure must still be approved by a two-thirds vote in the General Assembly.
One of the major provisions of the resolution is that international aid would be given to any person defined as a refugee by the General Assembly. To this provision, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt objected most strenuously. This, she asserted, might provide for relief to additional millions of persons throughout the world, half of the expense of which must be borne by the United States.
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