Mr. Chairman. the Committee on Foreign Affairs should be commended for reporting favorably on this humanitarian legislation (H. J. Res. 207). This resolution provides for membership and participation by the United States in the International Refugee Organization and authorizing an appropriation therefor. There are today over a million displaced and homeless persons in the warstricken countries of Europe. Some of these unfortunate people cannot go back to their former homes on account of hostile governments now in control which will imprison or execute them on account of former views and indepbndent thought. The great majority of these displaced and unfortunate war victims are without any opportunities to establish a homeland or secure work or earn a livelihood.