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Has already proved it is not true. In the newspapers here in Washington under the date of October 1. 1945. is an article from Frankfort. Germany. by the United Press and I quote: General Eisenhowers headquarters countered charges of inhuman treatment of Jews in the American occupation zone today by proposing that correspondents make an immediate investigation of the "worst" refugee camps. You have all read the newspapers and you know these people are getting 2.500 to 3.000 calories a day over there. that they are being fed twice as well as this report indicates they.are being fed. that there are only 25.000 of them left. and that Lt. General Smith. under General Eisenhower. has offered his own plane. -and enough planes for every correspondent to visit these camps at once to show the fallacy of this charge and to prove that it is not true. We would like for the condition of the refugees to be improved and in fact it is being improved under the administration of the Army at the expense of the tapayers of America. But we cannot get them back to a living condition that might be likened to that before the war .and before the persecution broke out in Germany. We would like to see the gates of Palestine opened and a haven provided for the refugees so that they would have a chance to work out their own salvation economically and financially. But those are things that the American Congress has not had a chance to help accomplish. May I remind you there has been before this House for quite some time a resolution dealing to a large extent with an attempt to get England to open the gates of Palestine for the refugees in Germany. and that very resolution I understand was not acted upon in this House at the suggestion of the administration. Certainly. if the President wants to help out. he will find that the Congress of the United States would like also to help him and cooperate with him in an effort to help get England into an attitude of mind where that government would be willing to admit more of these stricken people in Europe into.Pale-. stine. Quoting further: General Eisenhowers chief of staff.