Hooray!  The War Refugee Board finally has a representative in Switzerland.  Only a month after he was supposed to be appointed, Roswell McClelland was announced as the WRB’s staff in Bern.  While Ackermann (in North Africa) and Olsen (Stockholm) were Treasury Department employees, and Hirschman was a private citizen, McClelland in Bern and Robert Dexter in Lisbon were previously employees of private relief organizations.  For Dexter, this became a problem for the WRB, as his Unitarian Service Committee was closely allied with the World Jewish Congress.  When the WJC began feuding with the Joint in Lisbon, Dexter took sides and the WRB had to send a man from the United States to mediate.  But we’ll get to all that.  The bottom line is that McClelland had no such problems.  He was pretty universally liked, as evident from this congratulatory note from Gerhart Riegner: “I need hardly say how warmly we all have welcomed your nomination to this most important post. We are indeed confident that the work of the War Refugee Board will be greatly benefited by your experience and your competence in refugee matters, and that our well established relations will continue and become still closer in the future.”