Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1952-08-16
UNITED NATIONS
N0TEy

NNloDal) - FORD FUND EN-
BOWS UN REFUGEE WORK
Paul G. Hoffman, director of the
Ford Foundation, announced this
week a grant Of 100000 by the
foundation to the United Nations
Refugee Emergency Fund. The
money is to be expende in an at
tempt to find a permanent solu-
ton to the problem of more than
100000 expelled persons and
political exiles in Western Europe.
Direct material relief is not one
of the detectives, he said.
Mr.. Hoffman explained that the
Ford Foundation realized that the
Immediate needs of the refugees
were great, but regarded it as the
responsibility of governments of
the free world to provide them
with something to eat and a place
to live.
"These funds will be administer
ed by DR.. G. J. van Heu9en Coed
hart, United Nations High Com
missioner for Refugees" Mr.. Hoff-
man said. "The work will be car
ried out by private agencies select
ed by DR.. van Heaven Goedhart."
POINT FOUR AIDING IRAN
LAND REFORM The United
States technical aid mission has
! IuOrl-aJ O1,+ with +bo ,,,r,, r., o.,.-.- -. :
OF the Imperial estates, a twenty
year schedule for experimentation
of the Shah of Trans vast land
reform. The Imperial properties,
a considerable part of the nations
arabic land, will be distributed to
the peasants who work The land.
The Point Four program of
technical assistance promised $780,
900 from this years budget as
contribution to the capital of
bank that Shah Mohammed Ria
Dahlevi is setting up to protect the
peasants from professional money
lenders and crop contractors, who
demand 20 to 30 per cent interest
from the poverty stricken tenant
peasantry, or contract III the early
season when the peasants have
nothing to live on, to take the
crops at one-third to one-half of
their eventual value
EAST AFRICANS RAID ITAL-
IAN OFFICE Tive Italians
and an African were killed and
twelve Italians wounded when a
native mob attacked an Italian
Government office in East Africa
recently" it was announced. The
Foreign Office said several natives
had been arrested in connection
with the riot in Chisiamaio, Italian
| Somaliland.
NEW PARTY FORMED IN
MOROCCO >. A new political par
ty with a nationalistic aim was
formed here last week, known as
the Moroccan Peoples Party. 1t
is headed by ST Abdel Kader Zem-
rani, son of Caid 81 Bachir Zem-
rani, who fought against the Riffs.
The Party's platform calls for
"peace and honour with view to
acquiring progressively the indie
pendence of Morocco"
DAKAR, WEST AFRICA q.
Some $50 delegates from twenty
two non-Communist countries, in
GLIDING the United States and
Canada, attended the opening of
the third congress of the World
Assembly of Youth. Tie Assem-
bly,, founded in Brussels in 1949,
aims at establishing a worldwide
federation of your striving for
peace through international gath
erings and free travel across ma
tional frontiers. The last congress
was held in Ithaca, n. Y, in 1850.
The Ithaca congress decided to
meet at Dakar this year despite the
sweltering midsummer heat, be-
cause this important naval and air
base in Senegal provides "the best
example of youthful cooperation
and enterprise in Africa"
Maurice Sauve of Montreal pre-
sided at the formal opening cere-
monies in the Chamber of Com
merce Building, Frank Murray of
| New York, head of the United
States delegation, told the Assem-
| hlv he hODed that affiliated youth
organizations would develop where
at present they do not exist.