EXTENSION OF RELIEF

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24906, 20 June 1946, Page 5

EXTENSION OF RELIEF

EUROPEAN DISTRESS GERMAN AND AUSTRIAN JEWS INCLUDED NEW YORK, June 18. A committee of the United Nations Economic and Social Council, by six votes to three, decided that interrfttlonal relief should extended to German and Austrian Jews, and also to persons who lived in Germany and Italy as foreigners or stateless people. The committee defeated by six votes to four a British proposal to exclude foreigners or stateless people. It is estimated that 45.000 Jews will be. affected. United States Army officers are gravely concerned because thousands of Jews and other eastern European refugees are infiltrating into the United States zone of Germany. Twenty-five thousand, more than half of whom are Jews, who feluded the frontier guards, have arrived in the last three months. An American officer asserted that the infiltration was almost getting out of hand. The United .States Army with the aid of UNRRA was at present caring for more than 350.000 displaced persons, more than the total number of American soldiers in Germany. He added that if the flow continued more camps would have to be opened and extra food imported from the United States.

The Mayor of Vienna has cabled to the Director-General of UNRRA (Mr F. H. La Guardia) saying: “Unless food comes urgently the population will collanse.” Workers in Vienna have struck as a protest against the food ration.