Director-General Fiorello La Guardia today told Dr. Stephen S. Wise, president of the World Jewish Congress, that UNRRA authorities in Germany had no right to halt the activities of a cultural delegation sent to the DP camps by the Congress.
The delegation, which is headed by H. Leivick, Yiddish poet and playwright, was ordered last week to leave Germany because its activities were allegedly not in harmony with UNRRA’s principles.
La Guardia was quoted by the Congress as stating that “I do not believe the entire story. UNRRA has no right to do such a thing. Submit all the facts to me and I will take the necessary steps.”
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