President. may I indicate something of the scope of the problem of displaced persons? As late as 1939. 20 years after the conclusion of World War I. Judge Hansson. retiring president of the Nansen office for refugees. which was at that time combined with the office of the High Commissioner for Refugees of the League of Nations. stated that over 600.000 refugees were still under the care of his office. Beginning at about that period. the ranks of refugees and displaced persons who were uprooted in the war chaos increased to staggering proportions. At the end of the war the Allied armies in central Europe became the guardians of approximately 8.000.000 persons who had been displaced during the war. Approximately 7.000.000 of these persons were repatriated to their native countries within a period of some few months after the cessation of hostilities. leaving about 1.000.000 persons who refused to return to their homelands.
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