With regard to the functions of the Relief Organization, I assume that it will be the body   
primarily responsible for measures of relief during the emergency period, which may extend to two   
or three years.  I assume, further, that the relief measures will include the provision of food,   
clothing, medical supplies, etc., and the control of transport.  Both long and short-term refugees   
will come within the scope of their activities, not because they are refugees, but because they   
are in need of relief and it will lead to extravagance and confusion if, in the early stages,   
different agencies are dealing with the same problems of relief.  A position might, however,   
soon be reached, at any rate in some countries, in wich it would be practicable to separate a   
long term group or groups, and to arrange for relief measures to be carried out through some agency   
other than the relief organization.  The International Refugee Authority might, for instance,   
itself undertake direct relief measures for such a group or groups, but I would deprecate this   
if it would mean appointing a dual and parallel executive staff for the purpose.  This method   
would be of great practical value in establishing the standing and influence of the Authority,   
ringing it into intimate relations with the voluntary organi
 
                                                            
 
 
  Again, I have already suggested that there may be long-term problems relating to groups other   
than those of long-term refugees.  For instance, the return of ex-refugees to their own countries   
will not always in itself solve their problems.  Their rehabilitation may involve long-term   
schemes of settlement, and in so far as these might require international assistance, the   
Refugee Authority might be the most suitable boby to undertake the work.  Further, the time   
would come when it would be desirable to wind up the activities of the Relief Organization,   
even though, apart from long-term refugees and long-term problems which would already have been   
transferred, there would still be some loose threads to be gathered up.  The Refugee Authority   
      might again be a suitable body for the purpose.       
 
                                                            
 
 
 In paragraph 7 above, I have stated some of the initial functions of the Refugee Authority.    
Assuming that several groups of long-term refugees will be immediately included within the mandate   
of the Authority, it would be at once responsible for all matters of an international character   
concerned with those groups, except those included within the relief measures of the Relief   
Organization.  Its work would rapidly develop, first, as it undertook, either directly or   
preferably through voluntary relief organizations, duties primarily assumed by the Relief   
Organization; and second, as new long-term groups came within its mandate.  The skeleton organization   
outlined in paragraph 8 should be brought into immediate being at the end of the war, and it   
d be extended and developed as it assumed fresh responsibili
 
                                                            
 
 
 In addition to the financial responsibilities suggested above, the international Refugee   
hority would probbably have to subsidize the following objec