CARE OF REFUGEES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 February 1939, Page 7

CARE OF REFUGEES

FURTHER OFFICIAL PLANS WORK OF INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE. CO-OPERATION WITH LEAGUE OF NATIONS. ' (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY. February 14. A communique issued after the concluding meetings of the London session of the Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees states that the committee authorised Mr Rublee to inform the German authorities that it. had been using is using and will continue to use its best endeavours to develop an opportunity within the next five years for the permanent settlement of involuntary emigrants from Germany within the limits of the laws and practice of the member Governments. The committee, moreover, took cognisance of the projected formation of a private international corporation which would servo as an agency for financing emigration from Germany and for maintaining such contact with the German authorities as might be necessary for this purpose.. The committee decided to communicate with Sir Herbert Emerson. League of Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. stressing the advantages which would accrue from closer co-operation between the committee and the High Commissioner, and proposing that this co-operation might be made most effective by. uniting the functions of the Director of the Committee and the High Commissioner in the same person and maintaining the separate and independent existence of the two organisations. The committee, therefore, invited Sir Herbert Emerson to accept the office of director. Mr Robert Pell, the present assistant director, was appointed vice-director.