Evening star., 1946-12-03

by Col. ko
/ Copyright, 1946. North Ann
1 A major portion of the suppresse
report of the Senate War Investigat
, ing Committee detailing scandals l
the United States occupation zon
, in Germany is devoted to the prob
lem of displaced persons.
Il George Meader, committee counse
following an on-the-spot inyestiga
ton, charged that the largest grou
!, of displaced persons in the Unite
States zone has refused to be re
!. patriated to former homes in Soviet
4 dominated areas; that, although
they are heavy drain on the Unite
i. States taxpayer, pressure groups i
4 America are forcing us to retail
them. That heavy migration Of Jew
from Eastern Europe into the Unite
States zone is part of CAREFUL
organized plan financed by specia
E.groups in the United States; tina
the British zone now is closed t
refugees and that the French zon
never was open to them.
i Mr.. Meader declares that the car
of the hundreds of thousands o
refugees in the United States zone
costing this country $12 per montl
per person for food and 1920 initia
outlay for clothing. These expense
do not include the cost of trans
porting and housing them, nor tn
cost of the large number of Unitet
States military and civilian person
mel required to supervise them.
In addition to the large numbel
of Balts, Poles, Yugoslavs and othel
displaced persons, Mr. Meader states
there are over 100000 German!
classed as refugees in the Unitee
States zone. He declares that Will,
these people are a primary respon.
sibility of the Germans, actually
each is receiving 1850 calories ot
food a day at United States expense
| French Refuse to Accept Many.
"The United States" Mr.. Meadel
states, has agreed to accept 2,250,'
600 of these refugees, expelled from
Czechoslovakia, Austria and othel
countries. The British and Russians
also have accepted large numbers oi
these expellees. But the French
claiming they were not party te
the Potsdam agreement, have agreed
to accept only 10000 expellees of q
special category. 1t turns out that
there are only few thousand in
this category"
Mr.. Meader asserts that statistics
show the displaced persons OF all age
groups and sexes are overweight. Ar
explanation for this, he adds. may
be the fact that the ration they re-
ceive contains "a substantial por-
ton of starchy food which tends to
create fat
Mr. .Meader states that of the
10000 displaced Jews now in Ger
many. less than one-fourth were in
that country this year. He declares
that United States authorities are
continuing to accept Jews, as well as
all other Eastern European peoples,
who can present a plausible claim
that they are prosecuted for religi-
Gus or racial reasons, or for political
beliefs favorable to the Allies.
MIR. Meader declares from the evil
dence he obtained that the large
influx of Jews into the United States
zone is organized and financed by
American sources.
Source of Money Unknown.
"The Army authorities were un-
able to state the source of the hnan-
cial support for transporting these
trainloads of Jews into our zone,
MIR. Meader states. But they sus-
pect strongly that the American
Joint Distribution Committee is do
! ing it In spite of their protestation'
| to the contrary. Gen. Joseph NC
Narney, United States military com
mander in our zone, said he be.
lieved MIR. Schwartz, who is heae
of the. Paris Office of this commit
tee. would admit that they Wer'
furnishing the transportation.
II personally talked with a Jewisf
girl at Babenhausen, who said sh'
was a block leader. I asked her whit
paid for the transportation OF th'
oersecutees in this camp from Po'
land and Czechoslovakia. She sale
it was the Jewish organization.
''I spoke with representatives o
the American Joint Committee, botf
in Vienna and Paris. and they de.
MED that their organization hat
betrayed the transportation To-
these people. They insisted tina
this was a mass migration.
spontaneous movement generated b.
the pogroms and persecution in Po
land. These representatives OBJ
served that the best way to solve tn
problem was to permit these peopl
| to migrate to Palestine.
"It would seem important to know
whether these mass migrations ar
spontaneous or are being encour
aged by paying train fares to buil'
up pressure to further Zionist op
iectives. There is a very seriou
question of policy involved as t.
whether the United States, withou
having formally passed upon tn
question. should be plessured int
financing political program. l
may very well be that Congress
would desire to appropriate fund
for this specific purpose. But tn
facts should be known and a polio.
should be formulated with the ful
knowledge of these facts"
Critical of Refugees Attitude.
MIR. Meader is very critical of tn
attitude of certain of the Jewisl
refugees. He states they are refus
ing to work and complain abou
their camps and treatment.
"These persons, for the most par
penniless, do not desire to work,
lMr. Meader charges. They expeo
to be cared for and complain whel
things are not as well done as the
think they should be. Mr.. Gold
man, the UNRRA director of tn
Babenhausen camp, said he ha
not been able to get more than 40
of the 1000 there to do any worl
even to fixing up their own dwell