In Anatolia and elsewhere in Asia Minor. Armenia. and Greece there are 1.000.000 Christians who have lost their homes or who are threatened with evacuation. In Constantinople Greek and Armenian Christian citizens to the number of 450.000 are refugees. and these figures do not include 50.000 or more refugees In northern Syria. reaching as far south as Damascus. Beirut. and Sidon. thousands of whom are orphaned children. Then there are from 250.000 to 300.000 Armenian refugees from Turkey who are now in Russian Armenia. including 30.000 orphans In that area cared for by the Nedr East Relief. A careful estimate of the number now homeless or threatened with exile in that part of the world brings the number to 2.500.000 people. It is staggering! Therefore. when one looks carefully at the proposition. no matter how sympathetic he may feeland 1 take it the whole people of the United States are in great sympathy with the situation and the people thereone realizes the futility of attempting to do much of anything in the way of relief by lifting the immigration restriction laws that we now have. However. I have thought that in lieu of the several bills pendIng. both in this House and in the other branch. looking toward great modifications that might admit 100.000 aliens to relatives or even more. we might at the present time be justified In agreeing by resolution that those countries with exhausted quotas. most of whom have very small quotas. be permitted to use now the quotas which would be coming to them for one year from July 1 next.
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