Mr. President. in the same connection I wish to refer to another even more important phase of this problem. One of the things which is of greatest challenge in the central European areaand particularly in the controlled zones in Germanyat the present time is the presence of literally hundreds of thousands of displaced persons and refugees who are not only pathetically homeless but who are virtually cut off from any sustaining nationality whatever. They are in effect what might be called stateless persons. They are innocent victims of a -war which has made them men and women and pitiful little children without a countryyet constantly haunted with the fear of involuntary deportation to a status which they would consider worse than death. Last summer serious question was raised that many of these stateless persons in the American zone in Germany were being involuntarily repatriated to sectors of Europe where they greatly feared for their lives if they were repatriated. At my request an investigation was made of this situation. and the net result was to indicate that there is substantial improvement.
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