A clash developed between Geonge Warren, American delegate to the Preparatory Commission for the International Refugee Organization, and officers of the commission this week-end during a discussion of the organization’s proposed budget.
When Sir Arthur Rucker, assistant secretary of the commission, asked for more funds than the organization is expected to have available this year, Warren raised vigorous objections, declaring that the United States Congress would not be likely to increase its contribution to the I.R.O. He also disagreed with Rucker’s analyais of the problem as being one of merely finding new homes for the refugees and DP’s.
Rucker report that the I.R.O. expected 80,000 persons to be repatriated and 100,000 to be resettled during this year. Earlier, William H. Tuck, executive secretary, pleaded with the delegates not to cut the resettlement program because it represented the only possibility for solution of the refugee problem.
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