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(2) To request the Secretary-General (1) to submit the report on the legal aspect of illegitimacy to the Governments of member States for their comments, prior to its publication; (2) to consult the Governments of the Argentine Republic, Belgium the United Kingdom, Canada, China, Denmark, France, Japan, Mexico, Poland, the United States of America, Uruguay, and Yugoslavia as to the principles which they adopt m the organization and administration of welfare work among the young, including social assistance, and to ask them to indicate the part played by the authorities and. vol organizations respectively ; and, when the report on this subject is completed, it to these Governments for their approval. _ (3) To accept the new questionnaire (printed as Appendix sto Document C. 147, . , 1938, IV, mentioned above) for the use of Governments in preparing their annual reports on the Traffic in Women and Children. Refugees. A reference to my report on the eighteenth Assembly will disclose that I dealt at some length with tlie Question of refugees. The debate in the Sixth Committee on this question was long and at times somewhat strained, and it was only after surmounting considerable difficulties that some degree of unanimity was reached, and then only by abstentions when the motion was put to the vote m the Assembly. The effective part of the Assembly's resolution reads : The Assembly requests the Council to draw up or cause to be drawn up before the next Assembly a plan for international assistance to refugees." This resolution was before the Council m January last, when it appointed a Committee of Three consisting of the representatives of Bolivia, the United Kingdom, and France, whose duty iJwas to draw up the plan required by the Assembly, This Committee met m Paris in February last and a report by the representative of Bolivia on its deliberations was before the Council on the 14th May (see Document C. 189, 1938, XII). As the plan has yet to be considered bv the Assembly, which may modify it, and as the dissentient voices which were heard last year T7 hp "heard asain no useful purpose would be served in analysing it now except to say that it provides for the amalgamation of the work of the two orgamzations-the Nansen International Office and the Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees coming from Germany—which, under decisioi of the Assfmbly are to be discontinued at the end of this year. The new organization to be set up for a limited period would be directed by the High Commissioner for Refugees designated by the I eaeue and under the protection of the League, and the High Commissioner would have certain duties as defined by the Committee of Three. The Council accepted its Rapporteur s report, and passed the following resolution, with the abstention of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics . Th " Having examined the report of the Committee appointed to draw up a plan for international assistance to refugees , # , i , •, . " Takes note of the proposals contained in the report which has been submitted to it, " Instructs the Secretary-General — . ; „ , e " (1) To transmit this report for observations, to the Governments of the States members of the League of Nations and, for information to the Governments of the United States of America and the United States " (2) To prepare, after consultation with the President of the Governing Body of the Nansen International Office for Refugees and the High Commissioner for Refugees coming from Germany, a detailed plan on the basis of the proposals of the present report. " (3) To transmit the present report, together with the detailed plan, to le Assembly, with any observations he may have received trom Governments." DESIRABILITY OF EXTENDING THE POWERS OF THE HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR REFUGEES COMING FRoi Germany to cover Refugees coming from the Territory which formerly CONSTITUTED AUSTRIA. „ ~ „ This Question was raised by the representative of the United Kingdom One of the results of the Anschluss been a great increase in refugees, especially Jews and as there was doubt whether the powers of the High Commissioner would cover refugees from Austria although incorporated 11 the powers } 8 - tl ,d t b clarified. The question was at first privately discussed by the th» (W*. o? Th«. which d..lsT h»oo r iW B — SrHigh Commissioner is to interpret his mandate as applying to refugees coming from Austria that the Secretary-General should in the meantime consult with Governments concerned, and that the ffigh Commissioner should report to the next Assembly. These recommendations were accepted and the Council passed the following resolution " Tt " Havhitteken note of the report of the Committee entrusted with the examination of the^eSiHtylending of the High Commissioner for refugees coming foom Germany to cover refugees coming from the territory which formerly constituted AUS " Approves the conclusions set out above by the Committee ;

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