# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S665
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MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS 665

National Lutheran Council and was directed by Dr. J. Boden-
of the A. L. C. In both sessions also Missouri Synod lec-
ers were on the program. The third and fourth sessions (June 23
. July 13) were directed by the Missouri Synod, with Vice-

The Missouri Synod representatives for this Bad Boll con-
rence included Professors Theo. Graebner, Paul M. Bretscher,
artin Franzmann, J..T. Mueller; Dr. H. Harms, Dr. Adolph
aentzschel; Revs. Paul Koenig, A. C. Mueller.
A series of meetings similar to the Bad Boll Free Conferences
ave been tentatively planned for 1950. The N.L.C. Executive
Committee decided to conduct its own conferences and not to
oin in conferences such as were held in 1949. Hence our 1950
d Boll meetings” will be conducted along the lines of the 1948
Free Conferences.”

Displaced Persons Program
_ World War II left in its wake the most tremendous upheaval
f population ever recorded in European history. Countless num-
ers of people were forced to slave labor in the Hitler war machine,
thers were swept before invading armies, many fled their home-
and to escape hostile occupying forces, still others became fugitives
fecause of political oppression and religious persecution. Most of
these people found themselves, at the end of the war, in Germany,
\ustria, or Italy.

After V-E Day the Allied armies were faced with the grave
‘problem of effectuating the repatriation of these millions of home-
sless persons. Within a few years’ time the great bulk of these
"people, about 7,000,000, were repatriated to their homelands. There
remained approximately a million and a quarter displaced persons,
mostly from Eastern European countries. Care was given them to
' ‘some extent by the International Refugee Organization in camps
‘and assembly centers.

The USA Displaced Persons Act became effective on June 25,
. 1948. Soon numerous letters requesting information on DP place-
2 ments and immigration regulations dame to the Emergency Plan-
j,. ning Council office. Of necessity it was decided to let the Council
EB -issue pertinent DP information, resettlement forms, and other
. DP materials deemed necessary, to all Missouri Synod pastors.

- On November 4, 1949, the National Lutheran Council
approached the Emergency Planning Council with a plan for
... possible co-operation in an over-all DP program, including re-
B.. settlement activities also in other countries, such as Brazil, Argen-
-.. tina, and Australia. It was, however, resolved not to join the NLC

‘ ‘ _ in its DP program, but rather to expedite assurances through the