Evening star., 1946-03-23
|UNRRA Will Start
Talks Today on Aid 70
Displaced Persons
BY the Associotsd Press

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ATLANTIC CITY, Mar. 23.-Dele
gates to UNRRA's council meetin,
today took up the long -simmerinl
dispute over what to do with hun
dreds of thousands of war-scatteret
refugees who do not want to q
home.
This issue, involving more thar
100000 displaced persons, reached
the council floor today while repre-.
sentatives of At nations ponderes
their primary question-how to elk,
out from the worlds available foot
supplies enough to feed a hungr!
world.
Most of them privately, some O.
them publicly, stated their belle.
that it just could not be done, with
the result that sentiment is mount.
ing here for formal recommends.
ton that peoples from former enemy
countries must stand last in thu
queue for food relief.
Russia Revives Her Plan.
Russia was reported ready to re-
new the plan she advanced at Lon
don for denial of UNRRA aid tc
persons who refused to return tc
their homelands.
About 5000 Axis collaborators are
still receiving UNRRA aid in the
American occupation zone in Aus
tria, and about 5000 such persons in
the French zone, a subcommittee
discussing displaced persons, re-
ported to UNRRA's central com
mittee yesterday.
The report said the British have
made no report in their zone.
The subcommittee said it was
disturbed that even at so late q
date so large number of ineligibles
were still receiving relief"
Poles Refused Post.
The Soviet Union was defeated
yesterday in UNRRA's Committee
on Procedure in moves to include
Poland on UNRRA's Policy Com
mittee and to admit Albania tc
UNRRA membership.
Turkeys membership was ac-
cepted with no dissenting vote
However, Yugoslavia, which had
voted with Russia for Albania, re-
served the right to talk about Tur-
keys admission when the Commit
tee on Procedure resolves itself into
a full council meeting.
Albania's membership was pro-
posed by Yugoslavia, seconded by
Czechoslovakia and supported by
Russia-it was opposed by the
United States, the United Kingdom
Greece and France.
Assistant Secretary Of State Will
Clayton opposed Albanian entrance
because of the state of present dip
lomatic relations between the United
States and Albania.
Clayton Tells U. S. Stand.
He said the United States has
recently offered to recognize the
Albanian regime on the stipulation
that it will express willingness to
recognize existing treaties.
I'VE have not only failed to re-
ceive confirmation" he said. "On
the contrary the head of the AL
banian government has said orally
that his government does not intend
to respect the treaties"
There Is no question of relief to
the Albanian people," he said.
'UNRRA has already decided on re-
lief for them up to $24, ,OO0, 900, and
the United States supported that.
+. Poland Backed by Soviet.
The discussion on whether Po-
land should sit on UNRRA'si Gen.
trail Committee came up on a pro-
posal from Australia that the COM
mittee, which now includes the Big
Five and Canada, should be en-
larged to admit Australia, Brazil
and Yugoslavia.
NJ I. Feonor of Russia requested
that the committee be enlarged by
four and that the fourth nation be
Poland.
He was opposed by the United
States and by Honduras.
Mr.. Clayton said he had agreed
with some reluctance" to share the
committee, but he would support
Australia and Brazil because they
are large contributors to UNRRA,
and Yugoslavia because of the
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