840.48 Refugees/4142: Telegram
The Ambassador in the United Kingdom (Winant) to the Secretary of State
[Received August 12—5:43 p.m.]
5303. Following is text of press communiqué given out by Director’s office following meeting of Executive Committee of Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees on August 4:
“4th August 1943. Press communiqué. The Executive Committee of the Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees met this morning at the Foreign Office, presided over by Lord Winterton, chairman and British Government representative. The other members of the Committee present were as follows: H. E. the Argentine Ambassador Señor Dr. Don Miguel Angel Carcano, KBE; H. E. the Brazilian Ambassador Señor J. J. Moniz de Aragao, CBE; H. E. the Netherland Ambassador Jonkheer E. Michiels van Verduynen; H. E. the Ambassador of the United States of America, the Honorable Mr. John Gilbert Winant; Monsieur P. Vienot, representative in London of the French Committee of National Liberation. Sir Herbert Emerson, as Director, was present.
The Committee agreed on recommendations involving the reorganization of the Committee as a whole, and an extension of its scope and activities. These recommendations are to be submitted forthwith to the other member Governments. The Committee expressed the hope that the recommendations, when approved, would enable it to make an [Page 205] early contribution towards the alleviation of the present position of refugees, and materially assist in solving the post-war refugee problem.”