ugee Authority must be adequately financed efficiently to fu (xvi) The following long-term groups will come at once within the mandate of the Refugee Authority when established: (a) Nasen refugees, (b) refugees from Greater Germany. (xvii) Ther will probably be centrifugal forces at work, tending to increase the number of long-term refugees by voluntary emigration on a large scale from certain countries immediately after the war. Unless these forces are controlled and centrifugal movements regulated, until the normal ebb and flow of migration becomes operative, the long-term refugee problem will be intractable and insoluble. (xviii) It will not be practicable either to control centrifugal movements, or to secure the return of certain groups to their countries of origin, unless conditions are established in those countries which will enable the persons concerned to live the normal lives of citizens, with complete protection of life and property. It is therfore essential that every effort should be made to establish such conditions, and, as an indispensable precedent thereto, that all discriminatory administrative measures stopped. This must be part of the peace settlement, and must be enforced by the necessary sanctions. (xix) It will be a partiular function of the Refugee Authority to obtain pemanent homes for long-term refugees by (a) return to their own countries (b) absorption of the countries of asylum, (c) emigration, and (d) large-scale settlement. (xx) It will be an important duty of the Refugee Authority to secure the closest cooperation and assistance both of member and non-menber governments, and to bring so far as possible the administration of internal affairs relating to refugees within the ordinary machinery of the governments concerned. (xxi) The fullest use should be made of voluntary assistance, --in money, in kind, and in service. Subject to the necessary safeguards, voluntary organizations, when necessary, should be subsidized from international or state funds. (xxii) Since the solution of the many problems will depend very largely on adequate finance, ilable public and private sources must be encouraged to cont |