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Refugee Body Leaders Return to Washington to Resume Talks on Roosevelt Plan

October 23, 1939
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The officers of the Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees returned to Washington today to renew preliminary discussions on the President’s proposal that they embark upon a long-range program for resettlement of refugees. Scheduled to meet at a conference here in the State Department are Sir Herbert Emerson, Paul van Zeeland, who arrived yesterday on the delayed President Harding, Lord Winterton, Myron C. Taylor and the diplomatic representatives of Brazil, the argentine, France and the Netherlands.

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