It will not be a bill for the relief of displaced persons. to bring them to the United States at one time and to charge them to a nonquota arrangement. but it will charge 50 percent to each years quota. so that in the case of Poland. which has a quota of approximately 7.300 for each year. approximately 3.500. or onehalf of the annual quota. could be charged against the quota for 1 year. and if 15.000 Poles were brought to the United States under the Displaced Persons Act it would not be possible for the regular quota numbers of Poland to enter the United States for some 5 years. Mr. President. under the quota system we have an arrangement. whereby relatives and dependents are permitted to enter the United States to the extent of 50 percent of the regular quota for any 1 year. This substitute would interfere with that arrangement. too. Then this bill would not be a nonquota bill. but it would be a quota bill. it would charge to the future quotas the numbers of such persons admitted. and then the bill would not be a quota bill. Then we would have to reverse the decision we previously had made. instead of saying that 200.000 displaced persons may be admitted. as we have previously voted. we would say that 140.000 persons would be admitted. I hope the Senate will not change the number it has already determined upon. and I hope the Senate will not adopt the quota proposal.
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