Achievement in Bermuda

"A diabolical lie!" cried Illinois's Scott Lucas in the Senate. " A damn lie!" growled Chairman Sol Bloom of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. The Senator and the Representative, delegates to the recent U.S.-British conference on refugees at Bermuda, were jointly irked by a three-quarter-page ad in the New York Times last week in which the vociferous Committee for a Jewish Army of Stateless and Palestinian Jews screamed that TO 5,000,000 JEWS IN THE NAZI DEATHTRAP BERMUDA WAS A "CRUEL MOCKERY."

Sol Bloom and Scott Lucas were not yet at liberty to dispute these aspersions with concrete facts. But reports came that the widely discounted Bermuda conference may have been more than a junketing seminar after all. Readying for release, perhaps this week, was a joint U.S.-British announcement of plans agreed on. The Intergovernmental Refugee Commit tee, established in 1938 as an unpaid advisory body, was to be buttressed with funds and a paid chairman and secretary, given the job of finding land, housing, shipping, food, medicines and other supplies needed to resettle some of the 20,000 refugees in Spain, the 100,000 in the Balkans. Some 55,000 Jews are to be moved to Palestine. Homes may be found for other refugees in Turkey, Iran, Iraq, perhaps the U.S. and South America. Ahead lie months of ticklish negotiations. But at least the conference had mapped action, however limited.

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