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OCR Page 1 of 6my dear
Displaced persons
SUGGESTED LETTER TO GENERAL EISENHOWER
I have received and considered the report of Mr. Earl G.
Harrison, our representative on the Intergovernmental Committee
on Refugees, upon his mission to inquire into the condition and
needs of displaced persons, particularly Jews, in Germany who may
be
stateless or non-repatriable, I am sending you a copy of that
report. I have also had a long conference with him on the same
subject matter.
While Mr. Harrison makes due allowance for the fact that
during the early days of liberation the huge task of mass repatri- -
which
ation required main attention, he reports conditions/now exist and
which require prompt remedy. These conditions, I know, are not
in conformity with policies promulgated by SHAEF, now Combined
Displaced Persons Executive. But they are what actually exists
in the field. In other words, the policies are not being carried
out by some of your subordinate officers.
For example, military government officers have been authorized
and even directed to requisition billeting facilities from the
German population for the benefit of displaced persons. Yet,
from this report, this has not been done on any wide scale.
Apparently it is being taken for granted that all displaced persons,
irrespective of their former persecution or the likelihood that
their repatriation or resettlement will be delayed, must remain in
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