The reason why I made a strong plea. a year or so ago. to have the date which determined eligibility changed from 1945 to 1947 was because in 1947 General Clay issued a directive that from that time on. the camps would be closed. That enabled us to consider the persons then occuying the camps. as recognized by our military authorities. as the complete package of our responsibility. I realize that since that time there has been an enlargement of the need so as to include other persons. but I still maintain that our original responsibility was to the camps which were in our western zone of Germany. which we were paying for. and we had investigated the occupants of the camps and we had a record of them. The first director of the International Refugee Organization. Mr. W.