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my 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