The current program of the United Hias Service in assisting Jewish migrants and refugees is at a rate 10 percent above its anticipated volume of service for the year 1962, it was reported here today by James P. Rice, executive director, following his return from a survey of overseas operations. “There are strong indications that this flow of activity will not only continue, but will be accelerated even further in the coming months.”
During the first three months of this year, Mr. Rice reported, United Hias Service assisted more than 1, 850 Jewish migrant and refugees from Europe, North Africa, Egypt and Cuba to resettle in the United States, Latin America, Canada and Australia. About 50 percent of those assisted, including more than 400 Jewish refugees from Cuba, came to the United States. Mr. Rice emphasized that a large majority of the newcomers to this country entered under the special immigration law, Public Law 86-648.
The agency’s European headquarters moved from Paris to Geneva, where all of the other international migration and refugee agencies, as well as all of the major voluntary agencies, have already established overseas headquarters, Mr. Rice reported.
During the overseas survey, Mr. Rice and Israel G. Jacobson, European director for the agency, represented United Hias Service at the Council Meeting of the Intergovernmental Committee for European Migration, and conferred on current immigration problems and needs with the United States, Latin American, European and Israel delegates who attended.
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