President. if the Senator will yield to me. let me say to him that in just the last few minutes I made an attempt to get the record of the hearings. I have not been able to get it yet. But I say to the Senator from West Virginia and the Senator from Kentucky that as a member of the Foreign Relations Committee. having sat through those hearings and having cast my vote in favor of reporting the bill which provides that we shall join the International Refugee Organization. it was my firm conviction then. and it is my firm conviction now. that the intent of that act all the way through was clearly that it did not place on the United States any specific obligation to admit any persons into this country. but that that problem could be fairly and properly met and answered only after a fair and decent and humanitarian investigation not only into the needs and requirements and conditions of those people. but of the abilities of the other peoples of the world to absorb these refugees. I still say there is no present obligation on the United States. that is fixed in any way. requiring that we take a percentage or a certain number or. in fact. any. if our Nation determines that it is not wise to do so. But. on the other hand. we can take such numbers as investigation might indicate to be wise and proper.
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