REFUGEE PROBLEM
NEW INTERNATIONAL BODY SUGGESTED REPATRIATION DIFFICULTIES (Bee. 10.30 a.m.)”LONDON, May 31., The United ' Nations' Committee on refugees and displaced persons has agreed that people who cannot be repatriated should be the responsibility of a new international body. This was revealed by the Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs, Mr. Hector McNeil. The committee on refugees, which is holding its final session to-morrow, reached a substantial measure of agreement. There is a difference between Britain on the one hand and America and Russia on the other as to how the funds for the organisation should be raised. These differences would be thrashed out before the Economic and Social Council, which would consider the report from the committee on refugees before the United Nations Assembly meets in September. '■We can’t leave displaced persons on relief measures another winter,” Mr. McNeil said. “We have to .be clear in our minds what we are going to do and whose responsibility they Mr. McNeil said he proposed to ask the committee to-morrow to recommend • that the Economic and Social Council should take some interim measures between now arid September 'as' a matter of urgency. OP®
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Greymouth Evening Star, 1 June 1946, Page 5
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