Chairman. I believe this question of displaced persons should be settled. and a majority. at least. of your committee feels that same way. I believe it should be settled. if it can be. without injuring or destroying our traditional quota system of immigration. This is accomplished by the terms of H. R. 6396. The 200.000 who will be brought in under this bill will be charged to the quotas. after first being carefully selected and screened. H. R. 6396 supplements and restricts the immigration system of laws. The people brought in under this bill are not in addition to but in place of those who would come in under the immigration laws and the Presidents directive of December 22. 1945. Those brought in under this statuteif it becomes a lawwill be a better class of immigrant than we will receive if it does not become a law. In answer to the gentleman from Georgia [Mr. Cox]. my distinguished friend. who says we are going to get the scum if we pass this latv. let me say that if we do not pass this law we are going to get the same people over a period of time without the restrictions of this law.
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