Displaced Persons & United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Statement

Displaced Persons & United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Statement Pan over tents, warehouse or garages & 5-story buildings; huge courtyard. Displaced Persons, DPs. Laundry on lines. Int. w/ woman & children pulls blanket across. Men in machine shop working on Volkswagen motors. Kids in class room studying English. 11:08:11 Large steam locomotive along dock, ship alongside w/ banner: International Refugee Organization. People w/ bags given ?? 11:08:26 Man walking w/ artificial leg. Room of men w/ artificial limbs throwing basketball or medicine balls. Sign on wall IRO is closing. Large room (United Nations?) w/ semi-circle desk on tiers. Seated man at microphone speaking (MOS), others behind. 11:09:05 Couple in office being interviewed, smile as given letters (?). Sign on outside of building: Vocational Training School, young boys into it. Working on motors & ??. Older people working at benches cutting glass & grinding & polishing for lenses. Old woman interviewed (CU). 11:10:03 Ext. of large building of apartments & kids playing outside on swings, etc. 11:10:19 Man (UN High Commissioner for Refugees?) at desk: “Today there are still hundreds of thousands of refugees who cannot solve their problems without international assistance...even today there are still some 200 camps for refugees... ...and you have the feeling they just don’t know what they are waiting for.” Post-WWII; Resettlement; Humanitarian Problems;