I am going to vote for the passage of House Joint Resolution 207 as reported unanimously by the Committee on Foreign Affairs. I believe the conditions that are written in this joint resolution are adequate. and recommends a fair distribution of responsibilities in solving the gigantic problem for the care of displaced persons for their repatriation or resettlement. The International Refugee Organization is the method recommended by the General Assembly of the United Nations for the solution of the displaced persons problem. If the United States does not become a member of the International Refugee Organization. that organization will not come into being. Thus. the question of United States participation is really identical with the question of whether the International Refugee Organization should exist at all. If there is no International Refugee Organization. the United States will have to assume. for an indefinite period. all costs and responsibilities connected with the care and assistance to the eventual disposition of the over 600.000 displaced persons in Americanoccupied zones. This eventuality would prove disadvantageous to the United States on financial. practical. and political grounds. The cost to the United States last year of taking care of our share of the displaced persons was about $130.000.000. Our share of the International Refugee Organization budget for the first year would be only $73.500.000. A saving of $56.500.000 would thus be effected. The resettlement of the displaced persons in our zones will not be financed by the respective countries which will receive them. but by the International Refugee Organization orif it does not come into beingby the United States. In the former case. the United States would contribute 45.75 percent of the developing costs of resettling all of the estimated 800.000 displaced persons to be resettled. In the latter case. we would pay 100 percent of the resettlement costs of between 500.000 and 600.000. The participation of 15 or more countries in the International Refugee Organization will create a collective stimulus toward solution of the problem as quickly as possible through resettlement. Toward that end the resettlement problem will be in the forefront of discussion on a worldwide basis. But if the United States has not supported the international solution of the problem through an International Refugee Organization. we would have to play a lone hand in arranging with other countries for the resettlement of our displaced persons. This would doubtless take considerably longer. thus prolonging our subsidization of the care and maintenance costs. well beyond the 3- to 5year goal of the International Refugee Organization. . This organization would consolidate and greatly simplify the processes through which relief and resettlement are to be effected. Therefore. the per capita costs wouldbe at a minimum.