The United Nations Committee on Refugees and Displaced Persons today unanimously adopted a proposal by Polish delegate Joseph Winiewicz that it set up a sub-committee to examine the memoranda submitted by Jewish organizations. Chinese delegate K.T. Tsien, who was named chairman of the sub-committee, urged that representatives of UNRRA and the Intergovernmental Refugee Committee attend its sessions.
In brief addresses supporting the establishment of the sub-committee, the delegates from the United States, the Soviet Union, the Netherlands, France and the Dominican Republic paid tribute to the sufferings of the Jews under German occupation.
The full committee voted yesterday to adopt the Russian and American proposal that the new international refugee body to be established should be independent of the U.N. but should cooperate with the U.N. Social and Economic Council.
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