United States officials look to the Intergovernmental Refugee Committee to see what steps can be taken in behalf of the Jews of former Czecho-Slovakia. The German absorption of Bohemia, Moravia and Slovakia politically will mean that the committee’s mandate will cover the refugees, either in German territory or those obliged to leave German territory.
If the Reich does not actually annex these areas, the 8,000 Jews now in former Czecho-Slovakia who fled from Germany and Sudetenland will come under the committee’s mandate. The United States itself can give little direct aid to the refugees, it was said. The Czecho-Slovakian quota is now 99 per cent filled. The quota totals only 2,874 annually.
American officials say that little can be done for these Jews until the Intergovernmental Committee selects a new homeland for refugees. Then American financial assistance to settle Jews there will follow.
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