REFUGEES: Awkward Exodus

In Washington last week top UNRRA officials wondered what to do about General Sir Frederick Morgan. They had asked him to resign his post as UNRRA director in Germany after he had charged Polish Jews with planning to flee Europe (TIME, Jan. 14). The General had ignored their demands, and that was awkward.

More awkward was the fact that the charge came close to truth. In Manhattan the pro-Zionist American League for a Free Palestine ran "so what" newspaper advertisements, arguing that if there was no such plan there should be one.

Most awkward was the existence of the terror-stricken Jews...

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