Speech #800102297

I thank the Senator for that information. I did not know that. However. let me say in that connection that the resolution which we are now considering and the one in the House require an investigation of the entire immigration system. which goes far beyond the question of displaced persons. It goes beyond the emergency created by the situation with which we have been asked to deal. I have no objection to an investigation. at the leisure of any committee. of the entire immigration situation and system. But the problem of displaced persons is an immediate. urgent problem. I believe that a joint committee of the two Houses ought to be created to deal with that subject and investigate and report its recommendations at the earliest possible date in the next session. For that reason I dislike to have that problem tangled up with a general investigation of the entire immigration system. which may require a long time and may require the Senate and the House to deal not simply with an emergency. but with a longtime program of immigration.