Central Representative Body of Displaced Jews Will Seek United Nations Recognition

The Central Committee of Liberated Jews in Germany, which is recognized by General Joseph T. McNarney, Commanding General USFET, as official representative of the displaced Jews now living in Germany, will also seek recognition from the United Nations, so that it may be able to present the specific problems of displaced Jews before the international assembly, it was revealed today by Chaplain Abraham Klausner, honorary chairman of the Central, Committee, at a press conference in the offices of the American Jewish Conference,

Chaplain Klausner, who is on terminal leave afte two years service in the European theatre, has spent the past 16 months working with displaced Jews under military government auspices.

“The Central Committee and the displaced Jews feel that Europe affords little or no opportunity for Jewish rehabilitation,” he reported. “The governments of European countries which have demonstrated their opposition to anti-Semitic tendencies within their own lands do not favor the forced repatriation of displaced Jews,” The problem facing the Central Committee is two-fold, he added, It must prepare for the eventuel movement of the displaced Jews from Germany to Palestine, and it must simultaneously carry on a program of rehabilitation, education and constructive work during their interim stay in the occupied areas.