CARE OF REFUGEES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26115, 30 March 1946, Page 7

CARE OF REFUGEES

RELIEF TO BE CONTINUED AGREEMENT REACHED (Bee. 10 p.m.) NEW YORK, Mar. 28. The United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration has agreed to continue its care for 900,000 European refugees, who are mostly from Poland, Russia, and Jugoslavia. This agreement, which has not yet been formally voted on, apparently settled one of the major arguments of the London U.N.R.R.A. session, says the American Associated Press. Russia agreed after insisting that U.N.R.R.A. officials in refugee camps keep in touch with the Governments concerned. Britain said its agreement was contingent upon abandoning. the suggestion that the U.N.R.R.A. refugee problem be submitted to review by a committee of France, Poland, Britain, America, Russia, and Jugoslavia, in which the Russians concurred. Mr Philip Noei-Baker declared that Russia and Argentina had the greatest untapped reserves of food in the worm. He said he hoped both nations would contribute to U.N.R.R.A.’s limited supplies and particularly urged Russia to aid her neighbours. The Council approved the United States proposal that U.N.R.R.A. supplies should be reduced in nations in which occupying armies are living off the land. Denmark, Norway, Luxemburg, and Belgium joined Russia, the Ukraine, Poland, Jugoslavia, and Czechoslovakia in abstaining from voting.