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The most suitable one for our purposes, seems to be
England. Later when the emigration problem will be
solved, it would be possible to emigrate to a country
overseas from there.
The Central Committee in cooperation with the Baltic
Committee is trusted to further the emigration question.
The preent chairman is kindly requested to help to
settle this problem."
Repatriation
There were no further cases of repatriation during this phase a none of the conditinos which must precede a successful repatriation campaign such as free mail and visits of representative DPs to the occupied countries have been realized. In March, the Director received copies of a book for distributino, with the title "On Refugees and Displaced Persons" published in Riga in 1947 which contained the speeches of Vishinski and Gromiko to the UN General Assembly in New York in 1946, which it will be recalled, contained such passage as the following:
".......those people who do want to (return home) are beaten, terrorized, put in prison or thrown into dungeon, publicly flogged, and all this happens under the banner of a humanitarian and international organization."
The effect of such fantastic propaganda on repatriation can be imagined.
Latvian Congress
Fifty-two representatives of the Latvian displaced persons in all three zones in Germany and in Denmark, assembled in Junkers Camp on February 13th. to discuss their problems, to elect a new Latvian Central Committee, to elect new members for the Baltic Central Council, which operates only in the British Zone, and to transact other business It shold be mentioned here that the relations of the Latvians in Junkers with their Central Committee have always been friendly, and the Committee never interferes with camp administration, it being chiefly concerned with school curricula, cultural programs and so on. The delegates who met in February were elected in Junkers and other Latvian camps last
December
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