REFUGEES “HELD” BY r WEST
CHARGES BY RUSSIA AND POLAND U.N. COMMITTEE DEBATE (Rec. 8.40 p.m.) NEW YORK. Feb. 28. Russia and Poland to-day accused the United States. Britain, and France of preventing Russian and Polish refugees and displaced persons from returning home. The accusations were made in the Social Committee of the United Nations Economic and Social Council. Mr Maevsky (Russia) said: “Soviet citizens have been kept in camps and recruited into cheap labour gangs or forced into military formations.” The Polish delegate (Dr. Zatz-Suchy) questioned the value of keeping the International Refugee Organisation going. He said: “Under the auspices of the United Nations there is being operated a gigantic employment agency, a slave market agency, completely disregarding international conventions of labour.” The United States delegate called the Soviet and Polish allegations “absolutely fantaetic.” He added that a poll of displaced persons had shown thrtt 95 per cent, preferred not to return to their home in Eastern Europe.
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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25742, 2 March 1949, Page 5
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