We are taking the position of not driving people back to countries where they are in legitimate fear of persecution. relgious. or political. By taking this side of the issue while the Soviets have taken the other we reaffirm one of the most essential elements in our national securityour moral leadership of the world. Second. it saves us money. because we are obligated now to the tune of about $100.000.000 a year in our international Refugee Organization contribution. and other overhead costs of our occupation forces attributable to the DP camps. Third. because we can get good people for settlement in the United States who will make excellent citizens. There has been a great deal of testimoney on this floor from members who have been to the DP camps and who have seen that we can get highgrade immigrants from these camps. Those are the essential reasons why we are confining this bill to the displaced persons and why we call it a displaced persons bill. I would like to point out that the amendment offered by the gentleman from Wisconsin will cut exactly in half the effort we are making to help in the solution of the displaced persons problem.
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