Evening star., 1946-09-23
Truman Advisers Sp|i
On PauIey's 5 Report
On Jews, pm Says
BY the Associoted Press

NEW YORK, Sept. 23.-The
newspaper PM, in an exclusive dis
patch from Washington today, says
President Truman's personal rep
resentative on reparations has SUBJ
mitted report on the Jewish prob
lem that has become "a political
hot potato"
PM said the report was submitted
by Ambassador Edwin w. Pauley
the Presidents personal representa-
tive on reparations. In Washington
however, newsmen asked Presi-
dental Press Secretary Charles G
Ross about it and got this reply:
The President says he knows
nothing whatsoever about it. He
has seen no such report. It's news
to him.
Proposes Using Reparations.
PM said the report proposes:
That snare of German repara-
tions be made available to resettle
Jewish displaced persons in Pales-
tine.
That the Army begin transport
ing Jews from the camps in Ger
many to ports on the Mediterranean
perhaps in Southern Italy, moving
them closer at least to their perma-
nent homes"
That United Nations confer
ence be called to provide for the
resettlement of 100000 to 1000, 900
European Jews in countries
where they can live in peace and
dignity"
Want to Leave Europe.
OF the surviving Jews of Central
and Eastern Surope, practically
all of them want to leave Europe
and most of them feel they can
only achive security of body and
spirit in Palestine" PM quotes Mr..
Pauley as saying.
Presidential advisers have been
sharply divided on the wisdom of
releasing this report" PM continues.
Some politically minded advisers
have favored a release as a factor
in the congressional elections, in
order to show that the admins
tration is still working on the prob
lem of resettling Jewish displaced
persons.
Called Unpleasant Reminder"
Others have opposed publication
on the grounds that the report
would merely serve as an unpleasant
reminder that more than a year
has passed since the President first
asked the British to permit the
100000 Jewish displaced persons in
Germany to enter Palestine.
These advisers fear Jewish
protest vote in New York and
other industrial States this year
out of resentment against Tru-
mans acquiescence in the British
governments failure to keep its
promise to carry out the unanimous
recommendations of the Anglo
American Committee of Inquiry,
which asked that the gates of Pal
estine be opened to the 100000.
Hostile to immigration.
Some State Department ad-
visers, as hostile to Jewish immigra-
ton to Palestine as is the British
government. have been against
publication of the report on the
familiar ground that it will 'inflame
the Arabs and on the newer argu-
ment that reparations for reset
tlement may 'antagonize the Ger
mans and spoil the effect of the
olive branch held out to them in
the Stuttgart speech"
Mr.. Pauley was quoted as saying
in the report:
I'VE cannot bring 5000 900 dead
bodies to life but we can take
action-and take it noW-to make
certain that the over Zoo, 600 Eu-
ropean Jews who survived the Nazi
terror are given a chance to live.
The time for talk has long passed
the time for action is long over
due.
Il suggest that consideration be
given to the immediate convocation
of representatives of all the United
Nations, either through the appro-
pirate agency of U. N, or other
wise, for the specific purpose of
meeting this problem-and meet
ing 1t at once