Senate Investigator Attacks Jewish Dp’s in Report, Says They Are Unfit for Immigration

Jewish displaced persons in Germany are termed unfit material for immigration to the United States or any other country and are charged with black marketing, laziness and unwillingness to work, in a confidential report submitted to the Senate War Investigating Committee by George Meader, committee counsel, after a two-week trip to Germany, it was learned today.

The report asserts that the Jewish organizations are organizing and financing a campaign to bring Jews out of Poland into the American zone of Germany, and recommends closing the zone borders to further migration. American expenditures on the care of refugee are criticized.

While pursuing his inquiries in Germany on the DP situation, Meader’s chief source of information was Colonel Stanley R. Mickelsen, director of the displaced persons division of the Military Government. He did not consult with Dr. Philip Bernstein, adviser on Jewish Affairs to General McNarney, commander of American occupation forces, nor with UNRRA officials.

Because of objections to the report by Democratic Senators Kilgore of West Virginia, chairman of the committee, Mead of New York and Tunnell of Delaware, and by Secretary of State Byrnes, Senators Vandenberg and Connally, the proposal for an investigation by the committee of the American Military Government in Germany has been temporarily postponed. Senators Brewsters of Maine, Republican, who is expected to succeed Kilgore as committee chairman in the new Congress, Ferguson of Michigan and Ball of Minnesota, support the proposed investigation.

Following consultation of Brewster and Ferguson in New York with Byrnes, Vandenberg and Connally, the committee appointed a sub-committee consisting of Kilgore and Brewster to consult within a few days with Secretary of War Patterson on the feasibility of a small committee making an inspection, instead of an investigatory trip.