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Nations' Indifference Congress Trend Swings
Toward IRO's Success To Weizmann's Policies
Perils Refugee Problem British Delay

Special Cable to The Jewish News

LAKE SUCCESS, L. I.—After 11 months of wrangling

and compromise among the United Nations, a 26-page con-

stitution was adopted for the International Refugee Organi-
zation — the UN specialized agency which inherits the
problem of refugees.
It is estimated!' that between next spring and the auto-
matic expiration of its work, IRO will be charged with the
responsibility of repatriating or resettling the 850,000 up-
rooted Jews, Poles, Yugoslays, Russians, Baits and Chinese
who are scattered as a result of persecutions and the war.
A proviso adopted by the UN, however, may keep IRO
from becoming anything more than a small preparatory com-
mission. Financial clauses in the constitution call for ratifi-
cation by 15 nations whose combined contributions under a
scale approved by the UN Assembly call for an operational
budget of at least $151,051,000 for 1947. Ratification is volun-
tary and so many nations have expressed misgivings it is
believed their contributions may not be reached.
Operations are scheduled to begin on June 30 when
UNRRA will leave the refugee field.
More than 125,000 Jews depend upon the new IRO for
help.

The Arab delegation to the UN forced into the adopted con-
stitution a proviso that the wishes of people in non-self-govern-
ing territories must be taken into account before refugees can be
resettled within those terriv,r , es, the more having been taken
in order to prevent IRO from sponsoring the settlement of Jews
in Palestine.
It is predicted it will take from two to three years for IRO to
complete its task_ Recognizing the importance of solving the exist-
ing problem of displaced persons. UN delegates indicated they did
not envy the job of the future IRO director generaL

German Funds
For JDC, Agency

LONDON (JTA)—Sir Herbert
Emerson, director of the Inter-
governmental Commit tee on
Refugees, is blocking allocation to
the Joint Distribution Commit-
tee and the .1ewish Agency of
522,500.000 assigned for Jewish
resettlement and rehabilitation
by the Allied Reparations Con-
ference. it was learned on the
eve of the sixth plenary session
of the IGCR which opened here
this week.

The original directive provided
the funds to be used for Jewish
rehabilitation were to be given
to the IGRC • for allocation to the
Jewish organizations. Emerson,
however. has chosen to interpret
the directive to mean he has been
appointed trustee, rather than
just the paymaster.
He. therefore, has demanded

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BASLE, Switzerland. (JTA)—The trend at the 22nd
World Zionist Congress is turning towards the conciliatory
policies of Dr. Chaim Weizmann and his supporters are
using the tendency to press for his re-election and for the
selection of an executive committee which will support his
views.

(The new trend means the Congress is leaning towards the
policies of the group represented by Louis Lipsky, Dr. Haym
Greenberg and Dr. Nahum Goldmann. rather than Dr. Abba Hillel
Silver and those who have been demanding a militant stand.)

While Dr. Weizmann favors a small nine-man executive
committee, one of the compromises being discussed is for the
creation of a three-branched executive—one for Jerusalem,
one for Washington and one for London. Such a set-up
probably would be broad enough to include the left-wing
labor groups like Achduth Avoda and Hashomer Hatzair.

(Standing committees at the Congress. at the time this
issue of The Jewish News went to press. failed to reach an
agreement on the-chairmanship of seven commissions that had
not yet been formed.)
Lipsky. a past president of the Zionist Organization of Amer-
ica, said refusal to participate in the London Conference might
jeopardize everything achieved by the Zionist movement in the
last 50 years. Addressing himself to Dr. Moshe Sneh, one of the
bitterest opponents of both partition and participation in the Lon-
don parley. Lipsky asked why he was so determined "to reject
an opportunity to test Britain by a new presentation of the Zionist
case.
The crisis which had been brewing among the General Zion-
ists was resolved when Dr. Abba Hillel Silver stated at a meeting
of the General Zionist Confederation that party discipline should
not apply to political questions, and every member should be free
to vote as he thought best on the basic political issues before the
Congress.
(Complete Details of World Zionist Congress on rage 21)

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