The Italian Government today assured the International Refugee Organization that there will be no further arrests of displaced Jews in ##ly such as have taken place during the past few months.
Following protests by the Central Committee of Jewish Refugees in Italy, the ##nt Distribution Committee and the I.R.O. to the Italian Foreign Office and the ##istry of Interior, a government spokesman told Admiral George Mentz, I.R.O. chief Italy, that many of the Jews detained in Italian camps will be liberated.He said ##t most of them were seized when their papers were found not to be in order. As a ##or condition for the Italian promise, the government asked and the I.R.0. has ?mised that DP identity papers would be checked more carefully to assure that they ## in order.
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