Sumner Welles. advocated a series of conferences and consultations between the members of the United Nations. and announced that the United States Governmentintends at Lnce to undertake discussions with other members of the United Nations as to the most practical and effective methods through which these vitally necessary conferences and consultations * * * can be held. Only 1 day earlier. on February 25. we were given an example of these thorny problems. which do not even permit us to await the end of the war. but call for immediate attention and solution. On that day a note was delivered by the Secretary of State to Lord Halifax. the British Ambassador. outlining American policy toward the refugee question and proposing a meeting at Ottawa of representatives of the United States and Great Britain for a preliminary exploration of this question. Again we find no reference. In these two recent announcements. to one particular question which has been the source of many tragedies in the past. and which must be expected to remain the source of many difficulties In the futurethe Jewish question.