In connection with what the gentleman has just stated. there has been a definite. concrete effort and a real accomplishment made in the total reduction of DPs in camp because from January 1. 1947. to January 1. 1948. these socalled other countries. members of the United Nations. have reduced the number of DPs substantially to the tune of 200.000. In all of our investigations in the 200 camps that we investigated last year we found that each and every camp leader. who was equivalent to the towns mayor. who was elected by the DPs and who incidentally. for the first time In their lives had an opportunity to vote through a secret ballotto elect their mayor to represent themstated to me. to the gentleman from Pennsylvania . and all the rest of us that several nations had recruiting teams in their camps from time to time who were soliciting DPs to immigrate. Unfortunately though these representatives from England. Belgium.
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