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Pehle eyed for War Refugees board director post
Longtime government attorney John W Pehle, key aide to Secretary Morgen thau, could be appointed director of the War Refugees board. The post would oversee America’s share of rescuing Jews in occupied lands and resettlement in Palestine. Pehle, 35, is a Minneapolis native educated at Creighton and Yale, with ten years in government service after private practice. The piece also notes Gen Walter B Smith rising in rank and recounts Liu Kwang chi Gan Bay’s wartime exploits and plans to return to America after the war.
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