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United States Office
INTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ORGANIZATION
Room 819, 1346 Connecticut Avenue N.W.
Washington, D.C.
MIchigan 8000
Herb McGushin, Ext. 7
Ruth Safran, Ext.17
IRO PRESS RELEASE No. 104.
TRUMAN
HARRY
ARCHIVES NATIONAL LIBRARY
FOR RELEASE A.M. PAPERS
U.S.
MONDAY, AUGUST 22, 1949
Washington, D.C., August 21--A new series of "Compassion-
ate airlifts" to transport Displaced Persons to the United States was announced
today by the International Refugee Organization.
The "compassionate airlifts" are utilized by IRO to
carry expectant mothers, children under six months of age and elderly or infirm
persons. In making the announcement IRO pointed out that current shipboard
regulations prevent transporting expectant mothers more than six months pregnant
or infants under six months of age. Thus an expectant mother and her subsequently
born infant would not be eligible to travel by surface ship until late next spring
when, it is expected, practically all of the 205,000 authorized to enter the
U.S. under existing law already will have a rrived.
Sixty-three displaced persons, including eight orphan
children, will be aboard the first airlift scheduled to leave Bremen, Germany
tomorrow and arrive at New York's Idlewild Airport Tuesday.
Nationalities represented include; Polish, 40;
Lithuanians, 7; Estonians, 4; Germans, 3; Yugoslavs, 3; Hungarians, 2;
Latvian, 1. Two others are listed as stateless and the nationality of one is not
listed.
The new immigrants are destined for eight states as
follows:
New York, 31; New Jersey, 9; Wisconsin, 6; Illinois, 6; North Dakota, 3;
Ohio, 3; Pennsylvania, 3; and Michigan, 2.
Voluntary agencies which will assist the U.S. Displaced
Persons Commission in handling the new arrivals, include: U.S. Committee for Care
of European Children; Hebrew Immigrant and Aid Society; National Catholic Welfare
Conference; United Services for New Americans, National Lutheran Church and
American Federation of International Institutes.
It is expected that the "compassionate airlifts" will
run on a basis of at least one flight a week for at least several months.
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