So it Is with particular good feeling that I hear the Senator from Washington today sustain the committee. after Its months and months work upon this serious problem. I am glad. indeed. to hear the statement of the Senator from Washington sustaining the committees position and asking his colleagues in the Senate to vote against the pending amendment. because I feel that this very formula of fixing the eligible and admissible displaced persons is Indeed the heart of this bill. If It be destroyed the displaced persons part of this proposed legislation will likewise be destroyed and we will have not a displaced persons bill. but another general immigration bill added to the existing immigration laws of the country. That is the important consideration in connection with the pending question. The Senator from Washington has made it clear that unless we leave the dates remain as they are in the billand they are dates which long have been recognized by the executive branch of our Government. and have been unchanged until this very year of 1948we shall ruin the chances of the real displaced persons to secure the relief which the Congress and the country are trying to give to them.
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