Let me say to the able Senator from Michigan that I know full well the attitude taken by the United States toward persons who cannot safely return home. and I hope that our country and our Government will continue to maintain that attitude. It is for that very reason that I am asking why these people who cannot return home are excluded from being considered as refugees. Let me say to the able Senator. on this line. that what he has read from the record is the general rule. what he last read is the general application. I have that language before me. But if the Senator will turn to another page. he will note that exceptions are made. and definitions are provided of persons who are not to be considered as refugees. After the general rule is prescribed. the able Senator knows the application of an exception which says: Those persons who. since the end of hostilities in the Second World War * * have become sponsors of movements encouraging refugees not to return to their country of origin. I say it is absolutely against the principle for which this country has stood and to which it has adhered to compel persons to return to their former homes. there to be executed or mistreated. yet we find that this agreement to which we are asked to subscribe today violates that policy and principle as to persons who sponsor those who refuse to return because they are in danger. I have the concrete example of some 30.000 Yugoslavs and some 200.000.
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